Tag: rape

  • Woman gang-raped, set on fire by father and son in UP’s Sitapur

    By PTI
    SITAPUR: A woman was allegedly gang-raped and later set on fire by a father-son duo after hitching a ride on their cart on the way home in Mishrikh area here, police said on Friday.

    Both the accused have been detained while the woman was admitted in the district hospital with critical burns.

    Sitapur Superintendent of Police R P Singh said the incident happened on Thursday after information was received on 112 emergency service that a woman in her thirties was allegedly raped and set on fire by two persons in Mishrikh area in Naimisharanya.

    Singh said the woman was going to Mishrikh from her maternal home in Sidhauli area and took lift from the cart-puller, who is one of the accused, on the way home.

    Both the accused – a 55-year-old man and his adult son – have been detained by police and interrogation is on, the SP added.

    He said that the woman was admitted in the district hospital in Sitapur where a team of doctors confirmed that she had 30 per cent burn injuries but is out of danger, the police officer said.

    The woman will be sent for a medical examination and police teams have been constituted for a detailed probe in the matter, the SP said.

  • French film star Gerard Depardieu charged with rape

    By AFP
    French film giant Gerard Depardieu has been charged with rape and sexual assault, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday, the latest in a string of such allegations against prominent figures in France.

    Depardieu, one of the most famous actors of his generation, is accused of assaulting and raping an actress in her 20s in 2018.

    An initial investigation into the rape accusations against the 72-year old Depardieu was dropped in 2019 for lack of evidence.

    But it was reopened last summer, leading to criminal charges being filed in December, the judicial source said.

    The actress accuses Depardieu of having raped and assaulted her at his Parisian home on two separate occasions in August 2018.

    Depardieu’s lawyer Herve Temime told AFP that the actor, who is free but under judicial supervision, “completely rejects the accusations”.

    He also said he regretted that the case had been made public.

    According to a source close to the case, Depardieu is a friend of the actress’s family.

    ‘Nothing professional’

    Some reports have suggested that Depardieu and the actress were rehearsing a scene of a theatre play, but the source said “there was nothing professional about the encounter”.

    The woman’s lawyer, Elodie Tuaillon-Hibon, told AFP that she hoped her client’s “private sphere will be respected” as the case unfolds.

    Besides long being a superstar in his home country, Depardieu is one of France’s best-known actors abroad.

    He won acclaim in French-language films such as The Last Metro and Jean de Florette, but went on to perform in a range of English-language movies, including the romantic comedy Green Card and a film version of Hamlet.

    He is famous for untiringly shooting film after film clocking up more than 200 cinema or TV films over more than 50 years.

    But over the course of his career he has often been embroiled in scandals which have hit the headlines, and thrown public tantrums.

    His dark side

    He knocked a paparazzi unconscious in 2005, urinated in the cabin of a Paris-Dublin flight in 2011 and attacked a motorist in central Paris in 2012. The following year he was fined for drink driving.

    “The man is dark but the actor is huge,” actress Catherine Deneuve, who starred alongside Depardieu in The Last Metro, said of him.

    Depardieu announced in late 2012 that he was “giving his passport back” to protest against French tax rates, went into tax exile in Belgium and became a citizen of Russia which he called “a great democracy”, regularly praising Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    After Paris prosecutors reopened the case brought by the actress, an investigating magistrate questioned Depardieu on December 16 and, finding “serious and corroborated evidence”, brought the charges.

    Police also proceeded to a confrontation between Depardieu and his alleged victim, a judicial source said.

    Depardieu is the father of four, including the actor Guillaume Depardieu who died in 2008.

    Besides his prolific acting career, he has also been a winemaker, restaurant owner and a singer.

    Just over three years since the #MeToo movement broke taboos around rape across the world, France is seeing an outpouring of stories and a wide-ranging debate about sex, power and consent.

    Wave of allegations 

    Other big names in cinema to be accused of sexual assault or rape include director Luc Besson, whose films include Nikita and The Fifth Element.

    Week after week new revelations have targeted the rich and powerful, with one of the country’s best-known television presenters, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, becoming the latest to be accused of rape.

    The French political establishment has also been rocked by similar accusations, including against current Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.

    And a former French government minister, Georges Tron, last week began serving three years in prison after a court found him guilty of raping an employee during “foot massages” in his office and at the home of his co-defendant.

  • Girl student from Chinmayanand-run college found lying with severe burns along national highway

    By PTI
    SHAHJAHANPUR: A girl student of a college run by a trust of former union minister Swami Chinmayanand was found without clothes and severely burnt lying along a national highway in Shahjahanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.

    It was not immediately clear as to how the BA second-year student suffered burns and ended up on the roadside, the police said, adding she was not in a state to record her statement before a magistrate.

    According to Superintendent of Police S Anand, the student has suffered 60 per cent burns and has been referred to a hospital in Lucknow for better treatment.

    Director of Syama Prasad Mookerjee Civil Hospital in Lucknow S C Sundriyal told PTI Tuesday night that the condition of the girl seemed to be stable and that she was under observation round the clock.

    The girl had gone to the college accompanied by her father on Monday.

    As she did not come out after the classes, her father started looking for her.

    He was later informed that she has been found lying along the Lucknow-Bareilly National Highway naked and with severe burns and that she was being taken to a hospital by the police.

    The girl’s father said that he used to bring his daughter to the college once in a week or fortnight and used to wait outside till classes ended.

    The police said villagers had covered the girl with a sheet and that there was no trace of her clothes.

    The only thing the girl could recollect while talking to police personnel was that she was on the third floor of the college building.

    The girl was given first-aid at a Shahjahanpur hospital and referred to King George’s Medical University (KGMU) hospital in Lucknow, but her attendants brought her to the SPM Civil Hospital around 3 am, director Sundriyal said.

    “She is having almost 60 per cent burns on face, neck, ante part of both limbs, chest and abdomen. At present, there is swelling in the neck. Her condition seems to be stable at the moment.

    “But, if the swelling in the neck increases, it will become a problem for us,” Sundriyal told a PTI correspondent who visited the state-run hospital in the state capital.

    He said that the girl is under observation continuously and if her condition deteriorates, she would be referred to the KGMU hospital.

    “As of now she is stable, but we cannot be certain what will be her condition later on as the ante (front) part of the neck is involved. And at present, we cannot say by which method she was burnt. She has been administered some medications to ease pain and some drowsiness is there,” Sundriyal said.

    At the Civil Hospital, the 45-year-old father of the girl told PTI, “At around 10.00 am, we left home for the college.At 11.00 am, I dropped her at the college gate. When the college got over around 3.00 pm, and students were coming out, I could not spot her. Till 6.00 pm, I could not find her. After this, I got a call informing me about my daughter.”

    Suspecting the role of one of her friends, he said that her friend told her to go from the other gate of the college, but she (her friend) did not take that gate.

    “Whatever happened with my daughter, it is because of her friend,” he said.

    The girl from a village in the Jalalabad police station area studies in Swami Shukdevanand Postgraduate College, run by Mumukshu Ashram of Chinmayanand.

    The Mumukshu Ashram was in the centre of a controversy in 2019 after a female student of a law college run by it accused Chinmayanand of sexual assault.

    However, the student later withdrew her charges against Chinmayanand, who was arrested in the case in September 2019 and released on bail nearly five months later.

    In a separate incident in Shahjahanpur district, the body of a five-year-old girl was recovered and her seven-year-old cousin sister was found injured in the Kanth police station area.

    They had been missing since Monday evening after they had gone to a tubewell outside the village for taking bath, Anand said.

    As their family members and other villagers searched for them, the body of one of them was found in an agricultural field outside the village, while the other was found lying injured in neighbouring Fazilpur village, the SP added.

  • Man sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping minor in Rajasthan

    By PTI
    KOTA: A POCSO court here has sentenced a man to 20-years imprisonment for abducting and raping a 13-year-old girl in Kota city around two years ago.

    The court also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on the 23-year-old convict Monu Mahawar The convict on March 27, 2019 abducted the girl while she was returning home from classes and kept her at a relative’s house in Kota where he repeatedly raped her.

    The father of the survivor lodged a missing report after she did not return home.

    The girl was rescued after 19 days and Mahawar taken in custody.

    The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court -3 of the city convicted Mahawar on Monday.

    Statements of at least 22 witnesses were recorded during the trial of the case, the public prosecutor said 

  • UP: Woman accuses husband of inserting iron rod in her private parts; police denies charge

    By PTI
    KAUSHAMBI: A woman here has accused her husband of beating her and inserting an iron rod in her private parts, police said on Monday.

    However, Superintendent of Police Abhinandan said the woman’s allegation that her husband harmed her sensitive organs was not found true.

    The woman’s father filed a complaint with the police alleging that his daughter was beaten up by her husband who also inserted an iron rod in her private parts.

    He also alleged that his son-in-law, Sailesh Kumar, a labourer, dumped his daughter outside the village when she was in an unconscious state, according to police.

    “This is a matter of dispute between the husband and the wife. During probe, inserting of iron rod in private parts has not come to the fore. We are probing the matter. The couple was married over 20 years ago,” Abhinandan said.

    He said an FIR has been registered against the woman’s husband, brother-in-law, and father-in-law on dowry and other charges.

    A detailed probe in the case is underway, he said.

    The woman is undergoing treatment at a hospital, police said.

  • MP horror: Three, including BJP leader, force woman to drink liquor, gang-rape her in farmhouse

    By Express News Service
    SHADOL: Young girls and women continue to be under attack in Madhya Pradesh. The latest case of a 20-year-old girl being allegedly raped by a 39-year-old primary school teacher has been reported from Shahdol district of the state’s Vindhya region.

    Shockingly, the alleged rape survivor girl has alleged that she was forcibly taken in a car by three men, including the primary school teacher Rajesh Shukla and his two aides, including a local BJP leader Vijay Tripathi.

    The girl has alleged that she was taken to another village, forced to drink liquor and locked in a room, where the primary school teacher raped her with the help of two aides, including Vijay Tripathi, who is the ruling party’s Jaitpur Mandal president.

    All three accused, including the prime accused school teacher and his two aides have been booked under IPC Sections 376D (gang-rape), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 34 (crime with common intent).

    “Raids are being conducted to nab the three accused, who are on the run,” Shahdol district police superintendent Avdhesh Goswami told The New Indian Express on Sunday.

    According to Shahdol police sources, the girl went missing two days back, after which her family reported the matter at Jaitpur police station.

    Just a day later, the girl returned home on Saturday evening, but didn’t speak to anyone due to being in a state of shock.

    Subsequently the girl was taken by cops for recording of statements.

    The girl alleged that she was forcibly taken in a car two days back by the school teacher and two aides to another village, forced to consume liquor and locked in a room, where the school teacher then raped her with the help of the two aides.

    While the police have registered a case of gang-rape in the matter and making efforts to nab the absconding accused, investigations have revealed that the girl was having friendship with the school master and was regularly seen with him.

  • UP man sentenced to 10 years in jail for raping teenage girl in 2016

    By PTI
    PRATAPGARH: A POCSO court here has sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a teenage girl in 2016.

    Special Judge Pankaj Kumar Srivastava on Saturday held the accused Prashant guilty and sentenced him to 10 years in jail, and also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000.

    According to the prosecution, a 14-year-old girl student had gone Kamla Nehru Balika Inter College in Lalganj on January 19, 2016.

    However, the college was closed due to rains on that day.

    At the college gate, Prashant (the convict) on the pretext of taking the girl to her home, took her to Jaunpur, and raped her there.

    Based on the complaint lodged by the family members of the girl, a case was registered against Prashant.

  • BJP always holds victim responsible for rape, alleges Rahul Gandhi

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Citing a media report on a brutal assault on a woman in Madhya Pradesh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the BJP always holds the victim responsible for rape and shows laxity in taking action against culprits.

    Gandhi’s attack on the BJP came over a media report in which a 24-year-old woman talks about a brutal assault on her in Bhopal by a man, which has left her grievously injured.

    She also alleged that the police was showing laxity in nabbing the perpetrator of the crime.

    “Bhopal rape victim is miles away from justice even after one month because the BJP always holds the victim responsible for rape and shows laxity in taking action which benefits the culprits,” the former Congress chief alleged in a tweet in Hindi.

    “This is the truth of the government’s ‘Beti Bachao’,” Gandhi said, taking a dig at the Centre’s slogan ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’.

  • MP girl regains consciousness 10 days after building fall, names man for rape bid

    By PTI
    GWALIOR: A 22-year-old man has been booked for attempt to rape on the complaint of a 16-year-old girl, who regained consciousness on Monday nearly ten days after she was allegedly pushed off the second floor of a building here in Madhya Pradesh by the accused, police said.

    The girl, who fell unconscious after she landed on the ground, narrated her ordeal after she regained consciousness at a hospital, following which a case was registered against one Himmat Singh.

    No arrest is made so far, an officer said.

    The teenage girl is the neighbour of Himmat Singh who lives on the second floor of the building in Gwalior, said crime branch deputy Superintendent of Police Vijay Singh Badhoria.

    As per the complaint, the accused dragged the girl to a room and tried to force himself upon her, he said.

    “When the girl resisted, the accused thrashed her and threw her off his balcony.

    The girl passed out after she landed on the ground.

    She was spotted lying unconscious by some people, who informed her family members.

    The girl was then rushed to a hospital,” Badhorial added.

    The girl narrated her ordeal to her family members on Monday, who in turn, approached the police, the DSP said.

    The accused has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and under provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Badhoria said.

    The accused is on the run, he added.

  • Gujarat school teacher arrested for raping 17-year-old student

    By PTI
    NAVSARI: A school teacher was arrested from Gujarat’s Valsad town for allegedly raping a 17-year-old Class XI student on the promise of marriage, Navsari police said on Monday.

    Statistics teacher Mayur Rana (27) raped the teen girl, a student of a school in Bilimora in Navsari, on several occasions, an official said.

    “He cheated this girl and was set to marry another woman from here later this week. Valsad police held him from his home on Saturday and handed him over to us. He has been charged with rape and kidnapping under IPC and POCSO provisions,” he said.