Mumbai Mentally Challenged Girl

The Bombay High Court has quashed a sessions court order sentencing a man to 20 years in jail for raping a mentally challenged minor girl, holding that the accused was a minor at the time of the incident.

Upholding the conviction of three persons for gang-raping five mentally challenged girls in an orphanage run by them, the Bombay High Court has come down heavily on the state Child Welfare Committee (CWC) for failing to do its duty as a watchdog.

A father first pushed his mentally-challenged three-year-old daughter from the second floor of their building. She survived. So he took her bleeding body to railway tracks in Mumbai and waited there, hoping a train would end their lives. A neighbour spotted them and persuaded the father to move off the tracks just as a train was approaching, rep...

A man was arrested on Friday for raping a 9-year-old mentally challenged girl in Chembur in Mumbai.The girl was raped in Rashtriya Chemical Fertilizers slum colony in suburban Chembur.The accused stays in the same neighbourhood as the girl and was arrested after the girl's family lodged a complaint. More details are awaited.

In the background of the alleged rape of five mentally challenged girls at an orphanage near here, Maharashtra government will frame a comprehensive policy to protect the girls staying in orphanages across the state.Home Minister RR Patil today told the Legislative Council that, in 15 days, the state government would come up with a policy for the p...

The Bombay High Court has quashed a sessions court order sentencing a man to 20 years in jail for raping a mentally challenged minor girl, holding that the accused was a minor at the time of the incident.

Upholding the conviction of three persons for gang-raping five mentally challenged girls in an orphanage run by them, the Bombay High Court has come down heavily on the state Child Welfare Committee (CWC) for failing to do its duty as a watchdog.

A father first pushed his mentally-challenged three-year-old daughter from the second floor of their building. She survived. So he took her bleeding body to railway tracks in Mumbai and waited there, hoping a train would end their lives. A neighbour spotted them and persuaded the father to move off the tracks just as a train was approaching, rep...

A man was arrested on Friday for raping a 9-year-old mentally challenged girl in Chembur in Mumbai.The girl was raped in Rashtriya Chemical Fertilizers slum colony in suburban Chembur.The accused stays in the same neighbourhood as the girl and was arrested after the girl's family lodged a complaint. More details are awaited.

In the background of the alleged rape of five mentally challenged girls at an orphanage near here, Maharashtra government will frame a comprehensive policy to protect the girls staying in orphanages across the state.Home Minister RR Patil today told the Legislative Council that, in 15 days, the state government would come up with a policy for the p...