Rape Case Against Politician

Senior politician P C George today courted yet another controversy by making 'distasteful' remarks against the actress, who was abducted and sexually assaulted by a gang in 2017.

BJP leader Chinmayanand was questioned by the police last night, nearly a fortnight after a young woman and her family went public with allegations that he had blackmailed her and raped her for over a year. The former union minister was questioned for seven hours by a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Uttar Pradesh pol...

The allegation of rape by a law student in Uttar Pradesh against senior BJP leader and former union minister Chinmayanand will be investigated thoroughly, sources in the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that's probing the rape allegation said.

Chinmayanand case: A law student in Uttar Pradesh has alleged that she was filmed, blackmailed and raped repeatedly by Chinmayanand, a senior BJP leader and former union minister who has not been questioned by the police so far. No complaint has been registered against the politician either.

A CBI team investigating charges in the Unnao case against expelled BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar, accused of trying to murder the teen he allegedly raped, has asked for details of the politician's visitors in jail.

Bihar shelter home rapes: Young girls were forced to dance to vulgar songs, sedated and raped at the government-run shelter in Bihar's Muzaffarpur being investigated by the CBI for a massive sex scandal with links to influential politicians and bureaucrats, including Brajesh Thakur. Grisly details like this are revealed in a 73-page chargesheet fil...

A cleric in Maharashtra's Nanded has been booked for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl and molesting another minor, police said. Three local politicians from the girl's village in Majalgaon tried to pressure her mother not to file a case against the cleric, identified as Maulavi Saber Farooqui, a police officer in Nanded said, adding Farooqui is ...

After Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was held guilty of rape by a court in Panchkula yesterday, a retired CBI officer who headed the investigations against the influential Dera Sacha Sauda chief revealed that he was under pressure to close the case and described it as a "game of wits".

Accused of raping a 14-year-old girl, Meghalaya's independent lawmaker from Mawhati, Julius Dorphang, was arrested from the outskirts of Guwahati last week. The militant leader turned politician had allegedly absconded from Shillong after a police case was filed against him and a court issued a non-bailable warrant. He has been remanded in judicial...

Less than two months after she was allegedly raped by a powerful politician from Lalu Yadav's RJD, a schoolgirl in Bihar's Nalanda appeared for her Class X boards. And passed.

Facing protests and a police complaint over his column on ndtv.com, Ashutosh, a senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP, said in tweets this morning that his right to freedom of expression is being suppressed and an "atmosphere is created where critical analysis of history is not allowed".

A Congress law-maker in Kerala has been accused of rape by the police in a case registered this morning.

Delhi rape: A five-year-old who was kept hostage, mutilated and raped by her neighbour, is fighting for her life in Delhi. The barbarous attack on her- she was violated with pieces of a candle and a bottle- have outraged the city, triggering large protests against politicians and the police at the hospital where she was being treated.

Taking a strong stand against the statements made by some politicians over the gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said such people should be asked to "go home".

The Supreme Court has dismissed a case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who had been accused by another politician of kidnapping a girl in Uttar Pradesh and gang-raping her with his friends. The court said that Mr Gandhi's reputation had been damaged by the lawsuit.

Senior politician P C George today courted yet another controversy by making 'distasteful' remarks against the actress, who was abducted and sexually assaulted by a gang in 2017.

BJP leader Chinmayanand was questioned by the police last night, nearly a fortnight after a young woman and her family went public with allegations that he had blackmailed her and raped her for over a year. The former union minister was questioned for seven hours by a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Uttar Pradesh pol...

The allegation of rape by a law student in Uttar Pradesh against senior BJP leader and former union minister Chinmayanand will be investigated thoroughly, sources in the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that's probing the rape allegation said.

Chinmayanand case: A law student in Uttar Pradesh has alleged that she was filmed, blackmailed and raped repeatedly by Chinmayanand, a senior BJP leader and former union minister who has not been questioned by the police so far. No complaint has been registered against the politician either.

A CBI team investigating charges in the Unnao case against expelled BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar, accused of trying to murder the teen he allegedly raped, has asked for details of the politician's visitors in jail.

Bihar shelter home rapes: Young girls were forced to dance to vulgar songs, sedated and raped at the government-run shelter in Bihar's Muzaffarpur being investigated by the CBI for a massive sex scandal with links to influential politicians and bureaucrats, including Brajesh Thakur. Grisly details like this are revealed in a 73-page chargesheet fil...

A cleric in Maharashtra's Nanded has been booked for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl and molesting another minor, police said. Three local politicians from the girl's village in Majalgaon tried to pressure her mother not to file a case against the cleric, identified as Maulavi Saber Farooqui, a police officer in Nanded said, adding Farooqui is ...

After Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was held guilty of rape by a court in Panchkula yesterday, a retired CBI officer who headed the investigations against the influential Dera Sacha Sauda chief revealed that he was under pressure to close the case and described it as a "game of wits".

Accused of raping a 14-year-old girl, Meghalaya's independent lawmaker from Mawhati, Julius Dorphang, was arrested from the outskirts of Guwahati last week. The militant leader turned politician had allegedly absconded from Shillong after a police case was filed against him and a court issued a non-bailable warrant. He has been remanded in judicial...

Less than two months after she was allegedly raped by a powerful politician from Lalu Yadav's RJD, a schoolgirl in Bihar's Nalanda appeared for her Class X boards. And passed.

Facing protests and a police complaint over his column on ndtv.com, Ashutosh, a senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP, said in tweets this morning that his right to freedom of expression is being suppressed and an "atmosphere is created where critical analysis of history is not allowed".

A Congress law-maker in Kerala has been accused of rape by the police in a case registered this morning.

Delhi rape: A five-year-old who was kept hostage, mutilated and raped by her neighbour, is fighting for her life in Delhi. The barbarous attack on her- she was violated with pieces of a candle and a bottle- have outraged the city, triggering large protests against politicians and the police at the hospital where she was being treated.

Taking a strong stand against the statements made by some politicians over the gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said such people should be asked to "go home".

The Supreme Court has dismissed a case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who had been accused by another politician of kidnapping a girl in Uttar Pradesh and gang-raping her with his friends. The court said that Mr Gandhi's reputation had been damaged by the lawsuit.