The Kerala High Court has held that when serious offences of rape under the IPC or the POCSO Act are prima facie made out, then even the victim’s plea for quashing the case “has no preference”. The ...

The Kerala High Court ruled that serious rape charges under IPC or POCSO cannot be quashed based on the victim's plea, ...

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a man in Maharashtra’s Thane city, police said on Saturday. The police on Friday apprehended the 19-year-old accused in connection with the ...

A Delhi court acquitted an Indian Army officer of rape charges and ordered perjury proceedings against the woman who accused ...

Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday had refused to accept the plea of the state government demanding death punishment of ...

The state government argued before the high court that apart from the central agency, it too can move an appeal claiming ...

A 24-year-old woman jumped off a hotel building to escape an alleged rape attempt by the hotel owner and two staff members in Kerala’s Kozhikode, India. The horrifying incident was caught on camera ...

Over 150 women were raped and killed during a mass jailbreak in Congo's Goma, as inmates set fire to the prison. The incident ...

Locals discover victim’s body near canal connecting New Town to Salt Lake sector V, residents claim outsiders gather in the ...

The Indian police arrested six men who allegedly raped a woman in Punjab, a month after another woman died from a similar attack on a bus in New Delhi. The WSJ's Amol Sharma talks about the problem of ...

Congo jailbreak footage shows prisoners fleeing as smoke billowed in the background, with heavy gunfire ringing out.