Tag: Rape

Woman raped on road in broad daylight in India

  NEW DELHI: In a spine-chilling incident, a woman was allegedly raped by a drunk man in broad daylight on a footpath along a busy road...

Oxford University Islamic professor denies assaulting French feminist author

A professor of Islamic studies at Oxford University who was accused of rape by a French feminist author issued a statement saying he “categorically rejects...

Afghan Taliban deny Joshua Boyle’s claims of murder, rape

PESHAWAR: A Taliban spokesman denied on Sunday accusations by a Canadian man that one of his children had been murdered and his wife raped...

Canadian says child was killed, wife raped during captivity in Afghanistan

OTTAWA/TORONTO: A US-Canadian couple freed in Pakistan this week, nearly five years after being abducted in Afghanistan, returned to Canada on Friday where the...

Indian Supreme Court declares copulating with wife below 18 as rape

  NEW DELHI: Copulating with a wife below 18 is rape, the Supreme Court of India said in a landmark decision to end an exception...

Indian court charges ex-editor with raping colleague

MUMBAI: An Indian court on Thursday charged the former editor of a renowned news magazine with raping a female colleague four years ago, the...

9th grader assaulted, raped in Badin

BADIN: A ninth grade student, 14, was kidnapped and raped by two armed men, including a son of a local landlord, on Thursday in...

Indian ‘godman’ sentenced to 20 years in jail for rape

The guru, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, was on Friday found guilty of raping two women in a 2002 case, sparking protests by his supporters in various parts of north India

Followers of convicted Indian ‘godman’ end impasse with army

Followers of Ram Rahim Singh, whose loyalists went on a rampage after he was found guilty on Friday, began trickling out one by one under army guard from the compound of their spiritual headquarters in Sirsa, a town in the northern state of Haryana.

India detains hundreds, cancels more than 300 trains after deadly ‘godman’...

The army was deployed in Haryana state's Panchkula city after tens of thousands of followers of guru Ram Rahim Singh went on an angry rampage, attacking television vans and setting fire to dozens of private vehicles.

13 dead, curfew imposed after violence erupts in Haryana

The guru, who heads the Dera Sacha Sauda religious sect, is facing seven years of jail after the verdict passed by a special court of India's top agency, Central Bureau of Investigation.

Indian woman cuts off penis over rape attempt

NEW DELHI: An Indian woman cut off a man’s penis after he allegedly tried to rape her at her house in the southern state of...

160pc increase in rape cases in Islamabad: report

ISLAMABAD: A report submitted by the Ministry of Interior in the upper house of parliament on Friday revealed that rape cases in the federal...

India students rally after woman threatened with rape

  NEW DELHI: Rallies were held in India’s capital Tuesday in support of a student who received rape threats over her remarks on Pakistan after...

Rapists of LHWs killed in Gujrat encounter

GUJRAT: All four suspects who were wanted for alleged rape of two lady health workers were killed in a police encounter in Gujrat, police...

Indian lawmaker arrested for raping minor girl

Indian police have arrested a lawmaker from northeastern Meghalaya state on charges of raping a 14-year-old trafficked girl, an officer said on Saturday. Julius Dorphang,...