Barmer: A caste panchayat (municipal) in a Barmer village in Rajasthan ordered that the nose of an alleged Dalit rape victim be chopped off, reportedly at the behest of the suspect. The victim on Monday met the district’s superintendent of police and sought police protection from the villagers and the suspect, who happens to be her father-in-law. Caste panchayats are groups of village elders that pass dictates on disputes among members of their caste.

According to officials, the woman said her father-in-law had been harassing her since she got married recently before he allegedly raped her in September. She had at the time complained to the police after which the suspect was arrested and imprisoned for trial. After he was released on bail four days back, the father-in-law organised the caste panchayat that decided to maim her, the complainant claimed.

Members of the panchayat had attempted to attack her on December 19 but she hid in her maternal home and her father covered up for her, the woman said, adding that his family has since been threatened with dire consequences. Dhorimanna police station in-charge Devichand Dhaka confirmed that they got the direction from the SP office and investigations had begun.

Mangaluru: An assistant cable operator allegedly raped a 4 year old child in an apartment in Deralakatte on Tuesday December 23. The arrested has been identified as Ashraf (23) resident of Manjeshwar. He was working as an assistant to cable operator Pradeep. Ashraf went to repair cable in the apartment in the evening but the lady in the house prevented him from entering the house as there were no gents in the house.

But as the accused said that he will be busy later, the lady had allowed him to get inside the house and fix the problem.  The children of the lady a 4 year girl and a 6 year old son was watching him while he was repairing the cable. Accused asked the boy to bring some tools and after he went away Ashraf molested the girl it is said.

When the lady noticed that her son was away from his sister, she rushed to the cable repairing and the heinous crime of the accused came to light. The accused fled away from the site when the victim’s girl called the police.  A case has been filed in Konaje police station. The accused has been arrested and it was learnt that he is a ganja addict.

 

Hyderabad: Two women were rescued by the city police from the clutches of cruel Dubai sheikhs who forced them into prostitution and slavery.

The victims who are sisters, belong to the Vadlamuri village in Guntur district. They were sent to Dubai on November 11 by some agents in Barkas of old city.

The women paid around Rs 2 lakh to the agents. They were promised good pay and a baby care job in Abu Dhabi in UAE, but the reality was far different and both women were forced into prostitution and slavery. They were also made to clean toilets with their hands, south zone DCP Satyanarayana said.

He said that initially the 30-year-old elder sister pretended to have heart diseases and reached Hyderabad last week.

She approached the Chandrayangutta police and reported the barbaric treatment they were facing in Dubai. She requested them to rescue her younger sister.

South zone police who caught the agents Fatima and her son Imtiyaz, initiated the rescue operation and rescued her using the agent's network.

Gurgaon: A 27-year-old woman was allegedly raped by the driver of the cab she had hired to return home from a dinner party in Gurgaon last night.

The incident took place at around 9:30 pm. when the woman, who works for a finance company in Gurgaon, was headed back to her home in north Delhi's Inderlok area. "The woman had gone to a restaurant for dinner with some friends after her shift ended at 7 pm. One of her friends dropped her till Vasant Vihar from where she hired a cab run by a private company to take her to Inderlok," police said citing the complaint filed by the victim.

On the way, the woman dozed off on the back seat of the car only to wake up and find that they had stopped at a secluded spot.

She found that the car doors were locked and, when she tried to raise an alarm, the driver thrashed her and then committed rape, police said.

The accused then dropped her off near her home in Inderlok after threatening to kill her if she spoke of the matter to anybody.

"The woman clicked a photograph of the car's number plate and then made a PCR call to report the incident," police said. She was sent for a medical examination, which confirmed rape but showed that she was not given any sedatives.

"A case has been registered at Sarai Rohilla police station under Sections 376 (rape), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC. We have identified the cab company and the driver, who is in his mid-30s. Raids are being conducted to nab him," police said. The names of the accused driver and the cab company were not disclosed pending investigation.

Los Angeles: Pop sensation Lady Gaga has revealed that she was raped as a teenager and she went through emotional therapy to recover from the incident.

During a candid interview with Howard Stern, Gaga, 28, recalled how she was sexually assaulted when she was around 19-years-old, but she only spoke of the incident now because she does not want "to be defined by it", reported Us magazine. "I went through some horrific things that I'm able to laugh (at) now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy and emotional therapy to heal over the years. "My music's been wonderful for me. But, you know, I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19. I went to Catholic school and then all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?'" she said. Gaga said that she did not divulge information about the assault before because she did not want the attacker to receive any credit for her motivation to succeed.

Gorakhpur: A man was arrested on Monday for raping a 90-year-old woman in Gorakhpur locality of Jabalpur.

Rajkumar (52) raped the woman on Sunday night when she was alone in her shanty. The accused was allegedly in an inebriated state when he committed the crime. The man resides in a shanty close to the one in which the woman lives. The woman and her daughter stay alone and her daughter is a labourer.

The victim is undergoing treatment at a government hospital.

The woman's daughter learnt about the incident from her mother. Later, a complaint was lodged with the police.

Gorakhpur town inspector HR Pandey said the accused has been arrested on charge of raping the woman.

Bareilly: A 15-year-old girl, who bravely fought back when six men tried to rape her, failing which they set her on fire, died of severe burns in Uttar Pradesh. So far, four of the attackers have been arrested. 

The attackers, all from her village, allegedly assaulted her when she was alone at home in Shahjahanpur on November 17. When she resisted and fought back, the men poured kerosene on her and set her on fire.

The girl was first taken to Shahjahanpur Medical College and two days later, to Bareilly Medical College. Later she was rushed to Rohilkhand Medical College, a private hospital in Bareilly. The six accused will now face murder charges. The police are still looking for two men who are missing.

 

New Delhi: In yet another shocking incident of crime against women in Madhya Pradesh a young woman was thrown off a train after an alleged rape attempt. The victim who is a professional from Delhi was thrown off a train in Madhya Pradesh near Sagar.

The girl was found unconcious on the railway tracks on Thursday morning. The girl's family says she was sexually harassed by two men, robbed and thrown off the train. The victim sustained fatal injuries on her face and other parts of her body.

The victim's mother said, "We went to inquire what happened as soon as we heard about the incident. The enquiry desk gave us the number of a hospital. We called on that number several times but we got no response. We don't know her situation yet".

 The victim's brother reported later that he came to know about the incident only when he heard some people talking about a girl who had been attacked. Unable to spot his sister coming out of the train at the Ujjain station he then rushed to the group enquiry counter only to realise that the attacked victim was his sister. Investigations are on as the police is probing the matter.