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Topic: POCSO

Karnataka HC directs CID to not arrest BS Yediyurappa in POCSO case till 17 June hearing

According to reports, the veteran BJP leader has gone to an 'undisclosed' location in New Delhi.

5 booked for ‘gang-raping’ 15-yr-old girl returning from tuition class in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol

The accused, arrested Tuesday, allegedly held her male friend hostage while they took turns assaulting her. Two among them are habitual offenders with prior criminal record, police say.

Minor girl & boy in Ghaziabad ‘sexually assaulted by mother’s partner for year, tortured by mother’

Ten-year-old girl was rescued after she ran away in January. Medical examination of girl has confirmed rape & both the man and the mother are now behind bars.

Retd UP Police DIG booked for ‘unnatural sex’ with 8-yr-old, minor was ‘assaulted for months’

Minor's family had been residing in the former DIG's house on rent for past 2 yrs. According to FIR, boy revealed his ordeal after accused’s latest attempt to assault him on 17 February.

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.

‘Raped at home, molested in church’ — FIR against suspended Delhi official, wife in minor’s assault case

51-year-old & his wife have been sent to 14 days' judicial custody. Defence counsel says the accused underwent vasectomy in 2005. Medical report on whether it's intact awaited.

No one knows what really caused Jadavpur University student’s suicide. Yet it’s an open secret

Whispers in Jadavpur University have grown to a crescendo—not just in classrooms but across West Bengal. The Commission for Protection of Child Rights has called the student's death an 'unpardonable crime'.

Delhi Police want POCSO case against Brij Bhushan dropped — ‘no evidence found, statement revised’

Seven wrestlers including a minor had accused Brij Bhushan of sexual harassment. Earlier this month, minor's father recorded fresh statement retracting sexual harassment charge.

‘Nudity shouldn’t be tied to sex’: HC quashes POCSO case against mom who let kids paint her naked torso

Case deals with viral video made by Kerala activist. Judge Kauser Edappagath said she meant to educate her children to treat nude bodies as more than ‘just sexual objects only’.

‘Left our rooms in groups to avoid being alone with him’ — what FIRs against Brij Bhushan allege

Two FIRs against WFI head allegedly reveal sexual advances made by him towards wrestlers during competitions in India & abroad. One complainant claims she 'couldn't sleep or eat for days'.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.