POCSO
- India
NCPCR rescued 2,300 children across India in six months: Official
Itanagar: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has said that in the past six months, it disposed of around 26,000 cases and rescued more than 2,300 children across the…
- India
Tuition teacher gets 3-year RI for sexually assaulting three minor girls
Thane: A Thane court has sentenced a teacher to three years’ rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting three minor girl students in 2019, saying such an act deserves to be condemned and to…
- Andhra Pradesh
Rape accused jumps into pond, dies in Andhra
Tuni: A 62-year-old man accused of raping a minor girl here in Kakinada district, died after jumping into a pond while in police custody, said police on Thursday. Narayana Rao was arrested…
- India
‘Physical relations’ cannot be equated with rape, says Delhi HC
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has acquitted a man convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, ruling that the phrase “physical relations” used by the prosecutrix was…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad children’s home supervisor accused of assaulting 7 more boys
Hyderabad: A 26-year-old supervisor at a state-run Children’s Home for Boys in Saidabad, who was earlier arrested for “sexually assaulting” a 10-year-old boy, is suspected of abusing seven other inmates, police said…
- Hyderabad
Minor boy sexually assaulted in Hyderabad at knife point
Hyderabad: A class 4 student was sexually assaulted in Hyderabad’s Bandlaguda at knife point on Tuesday, October 14. The incident occurred near the victim’s school at 8:30 am. The accused first threatened…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: 10-year-old ‘sexually assaulted’ by children’s home supervisor
Hyderabad: A 10-year-old boy at the state-run children’s home in Saidabad here was allegedly sexually assaulted by a supervisor of the facility, police said on Monday. The accused allegedly sexually assaulted the…
- Hyderabad
8-year-old sexually assaulted by neighbour in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: A minor girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 23-year-old man at Saidabad here, police said on Friday. The incident happened about 15-20 days ago and the family members did not…
- Telangana
Telangana: Relative booked for molesting minor girl in Suryapet
Hyderabad: A man was booked for molesting a 13-year-old girl in Suryapet district of Telangana on Thursday, October 8. The incident occurred at the Mutthalamma Colony in Talla Khammam Pahad in Suryapet.…
- Telangana
Three arrested for sexually assaulting minor girls in Telangana
Hyderabad: Three men were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting three minor girls from the city at a lodge in neighbouring Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, police said on Thursday. The incident happened on September…
- Hyderabad
Man held for assaulting minor in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: An 18-year-old man was arrested and booked under the POCSO Act for assaulting a minor girl in Hyderabad’s Film Nagar area. The girl is a native of Mahabubnagar. The 16-year-old girl…
- Telangana
After 12 years, man gets death penalty for rape and murder of minor in Telangana
Hyderabad: A court in Telangana’s Nalgonda district on Thursday awarded the death sentence to a 24-year-old man for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl in April 2013. The Special POCSO court found…
- Crime and Accident
15-year-old girl gang raped in Mumbai
Mumbai: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by five persons on multiple occasions over three months in central Mumbai, police said on Monday. The police on Sunday arrested a 25-year-old man and…
- Telangana
Man attempts to rape 9-year-old in Vikarabad
Hyderabad: A labourer at the navy radar station in Vikarabad was arrested by the Changomul police for allegedly trying to rape a 9-year-old girl on Tuesday, August 5. The incident occurred at around…
- India
Flesh trade racket busted in Palghar; 3 Bangladeshi nationals held
Palghar: Police have arrested three Bangladeshi nationals after busting a prostitution racket operating at a house in Maharashtra’s Palghar district and rescued a minor girl and a woman from the premises, officials…
