Kolkata Gangrape Case

The CBI has ruled out gangrape in the death of a Kolkata doctor last month as the available evidence indicates only Sanjay Roy - arrested by the police - was involved in the horrific rape and murder at the city's RG Kar Hospital, sources told NDTV.

The 31-year-old doctor raped and murdered at a government hospital in Kolkata had a significant amount of semen in her body, suggesting gangrape, her parents told the Calcutta High Court that transferred to the CBI the investigation into the case

The rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College has shaken the nation, and the Bengal government and police are under immense pressure to solve the case at its earliest.

A 26-year-old woman was gang-raped in her apartment in Kolkata's Garden Reach area, following which the flat was robbed of Rs 15 lakh in cash, police said on Wednesday.

Bengal's National Highway 31 became a battlefield on Sunday after locals blocked the road to protest the alleged gangrape and murder of a school girl

More than four years after the infamous Park Street gangrape case, Kolkata Police has arrested the main accused from Uttar Pradesh.

Two women of Kamduni village near Kolkata turned from young, class 10-pass housewives into inspiring campaigners for justice for their neighbour who was brutally gang raped and murdered in 2013.

The special public prosecutor in Suzette Jordan's gang rape case, Sharbani Roy, was summarily axed by the West Bengal government from its panel of lawyers.

The two prime accused in the gangrape of a septuagenarian nun at Ranaghat in Nadia district of West Bengal have been arrested by the CID from Sealdah station, a senior official of the investigating agency said in Kolkata on Friday.

The Bengal government's request for the country's premier investigating agency, the CBI, to handle the case of the elderly nun who was raped at the convent where she lived near Kolkata has been rejected, according to the Press Trust of India.

Two days after a 72-year-old nun with a convent in West Bengal's Ranaghat was allegedly gang-raped, the police have picked up two more persons today taking the total number of those detained up to ten. The police, on Saturday, announced a reward of Rs. 1 lakh for any concrete information leading to the culprits.

The Supreme Court today lashed out at the West Bengal government for its failure to protect "the fundamental rights'' of a 20-year-old tribal woman who was gangraped by 13 men in Birbhum district in January, and directed it enhance the amount of compensation paid to her by an additional Rs 5 lakh.

Apprised about various issues faced by West Bengal, like rising cases of crime against women, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday assured action including sending a National Commission for Women (NCW) team to probe reported cases.

The Calcutta High Court today directed that IPS officer Damayanti Sen, who had solved the sensational Park Street gang-rape case, would investigate the alleged murder of a gang-rape victim at Madhyamgram on the outskirts of Kolkata.

The gangrape and murder of a 20-year-old at West Bengal's Kamduni village, 40 kms from Kolkata, is becoming a nightmare for Mamata Banerjee.

The CBI has ruled out gangrape in the death of a Kolkata doctor last month as the available evidence indicates only Sanjay Roy - arrested by the police - was involved in the horrific rape and murder at the city's RG Kar Hospital, sources told NDTV.

The 31-year-old doctor raped and murdered at a government hospital in Kolkata had a significant amount of semen in her body, suggesting gangrape, her parents told the Calcutta High Court that transferred to the CBI the investigation into the case

The rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College has shaken the nation, and the Bengal government and police are under immense pressure to solve the case at its earliest.

A 26-year-old woman was gang-raped in her apartment in Kolkata's Garden Reach area, following which the flat was robbed of Rs 15 lakh in cash, police said on Wednesday.

Bengal's National Highway 31 became a battlefield on Sunday after locals blocked the road to protest the alleged gangrape and murder of a school girl

More than four years after the infamous Park Street gangrape case, Kolkata Police has arrested the main accused from Uttar Pradesh.

Two women of Kamduni village near Kolkata turned from young, class 10-pass housewives into inspiring campaigners for justice for their neighbour who was brutally gang raped and murdered in 2013.

The special public prosecutor in Suzette Jordan's gang rape case, Sharbani Roy, was summarily axed by the West Bengal government from its panel of lawyers.

The two prime accused in the gangrape of a septuagenarian nun at Ranaghat in Nadia district of West Bengal have been arrested by the CID from Sealdah station, a senior official of the investigating agency said in Kolkata on Friday.

The Bengal government's request for the country's premier investigating agency, the CBI, to handle the case of the elderly nun who was raped at the convent where she lived near Kolkata has been rejected, according to the Press Trust of India.

Two days after a 72-year-old nun with a convent in West Bengal's Ranaghat was allegedly gang-raped, the police have picked up two more persons today taking the total number of those detained up to ten. The police, on Saturday, announced a reward of Rs. 1 lakh for any concrete information leading to the culprits.

The Supreme Court today lashed out at the West Bengal government for its failure to protect "the fundamental rights'' of a 20-year-old tribal woman who was gangraped by 13 men in Birbhum district in January, and directed it enhance the amount of compensation paid to her by an additional Rs 5 lakh.

Apprised about various issues faced by West Bengal, like rising cases of crime against women, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday assured action including sending a National Commission for Women (NCW) team to probe reported cases.

The Calcutta High Court today directed that IPS officer Damayanti Sen, who had solved the sensational Park Street gang-rape case, would investigate the alleged murder of a gang-rape victim at Madhyamgram on the outskirts of Kolkata.

The gangrape and murder of a 20-year-old at West Bengal's Kamduni village, 40 kms from Kolkata, is becoming a nightmare for Mamata Banerjee.