The government is likely to decide in favour of including domestic helps under the proposed Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010.

A proposal in this effect by the mi

A man has been sentenced to seven years in jail by a Delhi court for repeatedly raping his step-daughter for over five months.

Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) J R Aryan held Aligarh native Dayal Kis

A middle-aged woman, who was gangraped and beaten up by her assaulters, died in a hospital in Jharkhand capital on Monday, police said.

According to police, the woman took an auto-rickshaw on Sunday

A 43-year-old transporter was arrested for raping his 15-year-old niece in the capital, police said on Friday.

Vinod Kumar was arrested on Wednesday evening after his niece along with her mother comp

The police arrested a former unit sale manager of an insurance firm for allegedly drugging, raping and shooting the nude photographs of a girl with a cellphone, and circulating it to blackmail her.

A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped and strangulated by three teenage boys in Akvapur village here, police said on Wednesday.

The body of the girl, who went missing on Tuesday evening, was found

Odisha High Court has directed the state crime branch to submit a report within two weeks on the criminal liability of local police and doctors for the plight of the Pipili rape victim, who is in a co

A top official of the Women and Child Welfare department, arrested for allegedly raping a widow, has been remanded to 14 days judicial custody, police said on Sunday.

Radhakrishna, a Deputy Director

As many as 7,563 rape cases were reported in Jharkhand during the ten-year period since the formation of the state in November 2000, a local NGO Jharkhand Human Rights Movement (JHRM) has reported.

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A nine-year old girl, Salva, found dead on Wednesday, is suspected to have been raped and killed by the father of her friend, at Pookkottupadam near Nilambur, police said.

The suspect, Palakkaparambi