Young Girl Raped In Up

A young man has been arrested for allegedly raping a teenaged Dalit girl and putting pressure on her to change her religion in Fatehpur district in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.

A court in Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh has sentenced a young man to life imprisonment for raping a three-and-a-half-year-old girl, police said on Saturday.

Have no word to condemn the barbaric and shameful incident, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday after a young girl was gang-raped in Hathras and who died in Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday.

Amid outrage in the country over the gang rape and death of a young woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, another similar case has been reported from the state. A little more than 500 km from Hathras, a 22-year-old Dalit woman died after being allegedly raped and assaulted on Tuesday evening, when the attention of the country was focused on the events ...

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra demanded answers from the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh after a young girl questioned a senior police officer on women's safety in the state and country yesterday

Tejashwi Yadav had been unsparing in his sharp attacks from day one. But Nitish Kumar's party Janata Dal United had been prepared for it. It was as big a scandal as it was tragic. Nearly three dozen girls, one as young as seven years, put up in state-funded home to shelter them from harm had been raped by the man put in-charge by his government.

In Uttar Pradeshs Muzaffarnagar, a young man allegedly tried to rape a 10-year-old girl in a forested area.

Three young girls were raped and four other minors were sexually assaulted in seven separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh, news reports said on Sunday, in a string of cases that come amid heightened national sensitivity over rapes and murders of young girls that have sparked widespread protests and criticism of the government.

Demonstrations were held in several cities across India, including Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Goa and Bhopal on Sunday as public outrage over a spate of rape and murder of children spiral. Over the last two weeks, two cases have shaken the nation. Last Sunday, a 16-year-old, who was allegedly raped by a BJP lawmaker in Unnao,...

A 16-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh has said she was raped twice on Saturday night, first by two young men, one of whom was known to her, and then again, by a passer-by whose help she sought to get home in Uttar Pradesh.

Six knocks and loud banging on the door of a one-room house on the outskirts of Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow announced the nightmare that would end nearly an hour later with the gang-rape of a 12-year-old girl and an assault on her parents and little brother.

Two girls, 18 and 17, were gang-raped in front of their friends in Delhi last night, an incident that once again calls into question women's safety in the capital four years after the fatal gang-rape of a young medical student.

Days after two young girls were found hanging from a tree in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh after being raped, another teen has been found hanging from a tree two-hour drive away in the area of Moradabad.

In Uttar Pradesh, which has reported several horrific assaults on young girls in the last few days, a college student is battling for life in hospital after being raped and set on fire allegedly by a man known to her.

Rape is the fastest growing crime in India, up by 875% in the last four decades. Last month, a survey showed that 92% of men in Delhi knew someone who had harassed or sexually assaulted a woman. Little wonder, when a lawyer suggests that the young woman raped and tortured on a Delhi bus would not have been attacked if she were more virtuous, and wh...

A young man has been arrested for allegedly raping a teenaged Dalit girl and putting pressure on her to change her religion in Fatehpur district in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.

A court in Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh has sentenced a young man to life imprisonment for raping a three-and-a-half-year-old girl, police said on Saturday.

Have no word to condemn the barbaric and shameful incident, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday after a young girl was gang-raped in Hathras and who died in Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday.

Amid outrage in the country over the gang rape and death of a young woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, another similar case has been reported from the state. A little more than 500 km from Hathras, a 22-year-old Dalit woman died after being allegedly raped and assaulted on Tuesday evening, when the attention of the country was focused on the events ...

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra demanded answers from the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh after a young girl questioned a senior police officer on women's safety in the state and country yesterday

Tejashwi Yadav had been unsparing in his sharp attacks from day one. But Nitish Kumar's party Janata Dal United had been prepared for it. It was as big a scandal as it was tragic. Nearly three dozen girls, one as young as seven years, put up in state-funded home to shelter them from harm had been raped by the man put in-charge by his government.

In Uttar Pradeshs Muzaffarnagar, a young man allegedly tried to rape a 10-year-old girl in a forested area.

Three young girls were raped and four other minors were sexually assaulted in seven separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh, news reports said on Sunday, in a string of cases that come amid heightened national sensitivity over rapes and murders of young girls that have sparked widespread protests and criticism of the government.

Demonstrations were held in several cities across India, including Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Goa and Bhopal on Sunday as public outrage over a spate of rape and murder of children spiral. Over the last two weeks, two cases have shaken the nation. Last Sunday, a 16-year-old, who was allegedly raped by a BJP lawmaker in Unnao,...

A 16-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh has said she was raped twice on Saturday night, first by two young men, one of whom was known to her, and then again, by a passer-by whose help she sought to get home in Uttar Pradesh.

Six knocks and loud banging on the door of a one-room house on the outskirts of Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow announced the nightmare that would end nearly an hour later with the gang-rape of a 12-year-old girl and an assault on her parents and little brother.

Two girls, 18 and 17, were gang-raped in front of their friends in Delhi last night, an incident that once again calls into question women's safety in the capital four years after the fatal gang-rape of a young medical student.

Days after two young girls were found hanging from a tree in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh after being raped, another teen has been found hanging from a tree two-hour drive away in the area of Moradabad.

In Uttar Pradesh, which has reported several horrific assaults on young girls in the last few days, a college student is battling for life in hospital after being raped and set on fire allegedly by a man known to her.

Rape is the fastest growing crime in India, up by 875% in the last four decades. Last month, a survey showed that 92% of men in Delhi knew someone who had harassed or sexually assaulted a woman. Little wonder, when a lawyer suggests that the young woman raped and tortured on a Delhi bus would not have been attacked if she were more virtuous, and wh...