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Why Thane court refused bail despite complainant’s plea to withdraw rape case
June 17, 2026 10:41 am
The 26-year-old complainant said she did not want her prospective husband or his family to learn of the FIR and therefore wished to withdraw the rape case.
When love goes sour, it’s not rape: Court rules consensual intimacy can't be used as 'tool for vengeance'
June 02, 2026 7:56 pm
The Orissa High Court noted that province of criminal law is to protect citizen from acts perpetrated against his or her will; it is not designed to interpose itself in matters that are product of mutual agreement between persons.
Who failed Laadli? In toddler’s murder verdict, Punjab and Haryana High Court slams society for making men ‘perverts’
March 24, 2026 10:04 am
Somewhere between teaching and learning, our curriculum and society failed to educate Bharatiya primitive males basic respect for life and recognition of dignity of other genders, the Punjab and Haryana High Court noted.
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court says rapist destroys victim's soul but grants bail to accused
December 27, 2025 9:51 am
Justice Wani, while hearing the bail plea of a rape accused, held that he had been in custody since 2024, and the trial was underway with the survivor's statement already being recorded.
SIT files 2,144-page chargesheet in first of multiple rape cases against former JDS MP Prajwal Revanna
August 24, 2024 9:55 am
Apart from the victim and her daughter, two other victims of sexual harassment by Prajwal Revanna are witnesses in the chargesheet filed by the SIT on Friday.
Seven rape convicts got death penalties within 100 days in Surat, says Sanghavi
March 12, 2023 7:28 am
Speaking on the training of women under the state government’s “Suraksha Setu” programme, Sanghavi said, “Compared to Ahmedabad, such incidents are more in Surat city."
Rape victims not required to be made party in accused's bail hearing: Delhi HC appoints Amicus Curiae to decide
January 31, 2023 10:03 am
The court said a victim or complainant is not ordinarily required to be impleaded in such cases, and hence to take a "considered view" on this aspect, it appointed Rebecca Mamen John as Amicus Curiae.
5 Qs | BSP Lok Sabha member Danish Ali: 'Review provision of remission in rape cases'
December 15, 2022 8:02 am
Danish Ali, who raised in Lok Sabha the issue of 'rise' in rape cases in the countr, said even if the punishment is given, remission is exercised to release the convicts.
Man sentenced to 10 years in jail for raping woman in 2019
November 16, 2022 8:07 am
The accused befriended the woman and they started living together at Sector 56, Chandigarh.
Rajasthan: Police cite 'free FIR registration’, ‘false cases' as reasons for high rape figures in state
September 02, 2022 7:04 am
The police were responding to the recently-released National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report which states that Rajasthan reported the highest number of rape cases in the country (6,337 cases) in 2021.
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