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Sunday, November 2, 2025
TopicSexual Assault

Topic: Sexual Assault

Poll panel’s move to link SIR with NRC is irrational, creates ground for conspiracy theories

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Student at Delhi’s South Asian University ‘sexually assaulted’, police launch probe

Cops said a PCR call was received at Maidangarhi station on Monday afternoon over an alleged sexual assault within the campus. They said an FIR has been registered.

US judge rejects Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs bid for acquittal, prosecutors seek 11 yrs

Combs, 55, was found guilty by a Manhattan jury on 2 July of 2 counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, following an 8-week trial. He had pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Delhi police questions Chaitanyananda Saraswati in alleged sexual assault case

Saraswati's lawyer, Manish Gandhi, stated that some prominent individuals are allegedly involved in a 'huge conspiracy' behind him, and the issue is something else.

Delhi’s ‘predator godman’ had already fled India before 1st FIR. Anticipatory bail plea dismissed

Despite being accused of sexual assault by 17 students and multi-crore fraud, police unable to trace chairman of south Delhi institute, with assets over Rs 300 cr.

More and more POCSO cases are being settled by victim-accused marriages

Crimes against children are on the rise. And marriage is emerging as ‘compromise’.

Yoga space isn’t regulated. Niranjana Murthy lured girls with foreign trips: Bengaluru cops

‘Hardly anyone has come forward. In many cases, victims are made to feel as if they were in the wrong. This has emboldened him,’ said a police officer.

Bengaluru police arrests Yoga guru Niranjana Murthy for allegedly assaulting minor boy & several women

FIR says the complainant, aged 17 then, went with Murthy to a Thailand competition in 2019, where the yoga guru first sexually harassed them. The complainant quit the events afterward.

34-year-old Haryana man Shammy Verma arrested in California on charges of rape, sodomy

Santa Rosa police say Verma had a pattern of developing relationships with women and then sexually assaulting them, suspect there may be more victims.

2 convicts acquitted in minor’s 2012 rape-murder. How SC shredded ‘shabby’ probe by UP police

Top court overturned trial court & HC order on conviction of the two, one of whom was on death row, calling the case a 'classic example of lacklustre & shabby investigation'.

On Camera

Shah Rukh Khan’s India is about love, not hate. Chak De! India to My Name Is Khan

This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.