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TopicSexual Assault

Topic: Sexual Assault

Haryana teen’s sexual assault FIR against national shooting coach—’forced massages, threat to end career’

POCSO case has been registered against coach Ankush Bhardwaj, who allegedly asked the 17-yr-old to meet him at a hotel under the pretext of discussing her performance after a match.

‘They’ll kill me’—father’s chilling FIR claims ‘ragging, sexual assault’ drove Dharamshala student to death

4 female students & a professor have been booked after 19-year-old’s death, but police say probe is hampered by absence of postmortem or medical report stating cause of her death.

7 special police teams on lookout for trio which sexually assaulted college student in Coimbatore

Incident has triggered political storm in Tamil Nadu, with opposition leaders slamming the ruling DMK government, alleging women are not safe in the state.

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

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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.

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'.

Why POCSO court granted bail to Mumbai teacher arrested for ‘sexually assaulting’ her teen student

Court decides relationship was 'consensual' and as teacher had resigned from school, teacher-student relationship did not exist anymore, so 'allegation of influence was diluted'.  

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Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.