Man arrested on Sexual Assault charges after over 20 years of incident
A teacher was arrested in Darjeeling on charges of sexual assault filed against the man by her the victim after 20 years.
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Crime against Women and its Larger Ramifications
Protests have escalated all over the country on the backdrop of recent Hyderabad rape-murder case. A 25-year-old veterinarian doctor was abducted, raped, murdered and burnt. This is just one heart-wrenching case among thousands of such crimes. National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data shows that cases of rapes have reduced from 63 per million in 2016, to 52 per million in 2017, but a total of 3.5 lakh cases of crime against women were registered (these include murder, rape, dowry-related death, acid attack, cruelty against women and kidnapping, etc).
Rape of a 6-Year-Old Leaves a Community Devastated in Rural Darjeeling
Darjeeling is one of the safest places for a woman in India, but people in a rural village here are devastated today after news about rape of a 6-year-old baby girl came to fore. What is most heinous about this crime is the fact that the perpetrator who confessed to his crime is a 51-year-old teacher.
No Protection Given To Mentally Challenged Inmate Rape Victim In Kolkata: NCW
A NCW fact-finding team has said that the mentally challenged woman of a shelter home who was allegedly abducted and gang-raped in Kolkata has still not been given any protection, adding that it has found irregularities in the functioning of the facility.
6-Year-Old Gorkha Girl Raped and Murdered in Arunachal Pradesh
A 6-year-old baby girl was brutally raped and murdered under Chowkham Circle, Namsai District of Arunachal Pradesh by four men.
Absconding Rapist Pastor Arrested After a Year
Exactly a year ago, we had exclusively reported a terrifying story about how a Pastor in Tukvar had been continuously raping a 12-year-old minor, who…
SHOCKING: Murder, Rape, Violence in the Ashram of “Little Buddha” Claimant – Exposes Setopati
Investigative journalism is almost never practiced in our region. Be it Darjeeling, Sikkim, Nepal or Bhutan, more often than not, news outlets are confined to…
HORRENDOUS: Father Raped 13-Year-Old Daughter for Two Years, Then Murdered Her
“My father has made my life hell, I fear someday, I may die” – perhaps the 13-year-old girl, whose dead body was recovered by the…
In Vogue: Outrage – But Not For Our Own
#Kathua, #Unnao and #Darjeeling. What links these three places? These places are as far away from each other and as different as possible, but they…
Sex and the Indian men
‘Nepal girls trafficked into India up by 500% in last 5 years: SSB report’ – This disturbing news appeared yesterday, 31 March 2018, Times of…