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Congress expels Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil as anticipatory bail plea in rape case rejected

36-year-old faces allegations of sexual abuse from multiple women. Party had suspended him in August, & says latest development will have no impact on its prospects in local polls.

The acid attack that wasn’t: Toilet cleaner, ‘mastermind’ father & a plot fit for Bollywood

Akil Khan, the now arrested father of the college-going girl, sought to lodge false case for hushing up a woman who filed police complaint against him, says senior police officer.

Plot thickens in DU student acid attack case: Father detained, cops stumble upon old property dispute

The alleged survivor's brother is now untraceable. Earlier in the day, police revealed that the wife of accused had filed rape complaint against the DU student's father days earlier.

How videos recorded by Prajwal Revanna himself sealed his fate in rape case

Bengaluru: Digital evidence including videos, DNA from the rape victim's clothes and her testimony—this is what led to the conviction of former JD(S) MP...

Special court convicts ex-PM Deve Gowda’s grandson Prajwal Revanna in rape case

New Delhi: Grandson of former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda, former JD(S) Member of Parliament Prajwal Revanna has been convicted on charges of rape...

Odisha student who self-immolated succumbs to injuries, CM vows harshest punishment to culprits

The student had set herself ablaze Saturday due to inaction against the professor who had allegedly sexually harrased her.

Udaipur rape case: Accused saw French woman at ad shoot hrs before approaching her at dinner

Siddharth Ojha saw her at the shoot near Lake Pichola. He was a production assistant for a talent acquisition company that works with actors for ad shoots, ThePrint has learnt.

French tourist allegedly raped in Udaipur, accused absconding

The woman’s medical examination has been conducted. The accused man, a resident of Udaipur, is involved in a small ad shoot business, police say.

Judge who said rape victim ‘invited trouble’, in another case said woman ‘allowed sexual misuse’

In both cases, Allahabad HC Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh granted bail to the rape accused. In the latest case, the victim was a MA student who was allegedly raped in Delhi last year.

UK police charge comedian Russell Brand with rape, multiple assaults in four different cases

The four women had accused Brand of sexual assaults, including a rape, between 2006 and 2013. London's Met police opened a sex crimes investigation some weeks later.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.