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TopicCrime Against Women

Topic: Crime Against Women

Hooda alleges ‘betiyan unsafe’ in Khattar’s Haryana. Here’s what NCRB data says

According to NCRB’s latest report, Haryana had highest crime rate for crimes against women among states, in 2022, at 118.7 per lakh population.

Unnao headmaster’s ‘2-yr saga of sexual assault on students’ — ‘forced kisses, bribe for silence’

Believed to have been exposed by school staffers, the Unnao episode has emerged as one of the most sordid episodes of sexual crime at an educational institute. Headmaster arrested last week.

Online violence against women not taken seriously enough by courts, says Indian IT group study

Study based on analysis of 94 court cases by Karnataka-based lawyers Malavika Rajkumar and Shreeja Sen. It was published earlier this month on the group’s website.

Campus attack on IIT-BHU being probed as gang rape? Police ‘add IPC sections’ to original FIR

Varanasi Police Commissioner Ashok Mutha Jain refuses to confirm or deny news report that quoted him as saying that IPC sections added to IIT-BHU FIR include 376-d (gang rape).

‘Bound with chains & smothered in bag’ — how Swiss woman Nina Berger was ‘killed by gemstone dealer’

Police officers say accused Gurpreet Singh 'planned murder as he suspected the victim of having an affair with someone else'. Her preliminary autopsy report states ‘asphyxia’ as cause of death.

21 yrs after attack, Aligarh Police arrest man accused of throwing acid on 14-yr-old girl

The survivor, now 35, says the accused Arif is her sister’s brother-in-law, wants him to get the ‘punishment he deserves for destroying her life’.

Harassment, half-encounters, cry for bulldozer justice—2 UP villages & their version of truth

Parents and village elders of Ambedkar Nagar say they will not send their daughters to school unless their safety and security are guaranteed.

Muslim book vendor beaten up by VHP women members in Ujjain for ‘misbehaviour’

Vendor Virak Saleem of Punjab denies charges, says he was writing down phone numbers of customers who had asked for certain books that weren’t available with him at the time.

Bangladesh gangrape survivor fears 2024 polls. The 2001 election violence changed her life

Bangladesh exploded with violence in July. The BNP has taken to the streets to win polls. It is reminiscent of the post-poll violence when it won in 2001.

2 sentenced to life imprisonment for Dalit minors’ gang rape & murder in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri

Two others have been sentenced to six years of imprisonment in the crime. All four — Junaid, Sunil alias Chhotu (who was known to the family), Karimuddin and Arif — were convicted last week.

On Camera

No country built rare earths resilience alone. India must take lessons from Japan, Taiwan

Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.

Karnataka startups feel the chill as global funding winter sets in. Fintech emerges as sole bright spot

The state raises just $2.7 billion in first nine months of 2025 compared to $4.5 billion last year, with late-stage investments hit hardest.

What’s expected from Putin’s India visit in December—Defence Secretary explains

ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.