POCSO
- 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…
- Hyderabad
Telangana: Ex-councillor booked for harassing girls in BC hostel
Hyderabad: A case has been registered against a former councillor on charges of “harassment and misbehaviour” with some inmates of a state-run girls’ hostel in Sangareddy district, police said on Tuesday. The…
