Of late, I have been witnessing a very disturbing increase in the crime against females, be a girl child, a teenager, or an adult woman. It has almost become the order of the day. Newspapers are replete with such news. No doubt, India has been placed at parity with Afghanistan as the worst countries for a female to born in. Sometimes, I guess, had it been there in the past too but very less reported?.. or the mind set of the Indian male is becoming less human, devoid of any compassion and respect for the other gender, and is also becoming fearless of the Indian Law!
So, I fancied an idea to let the world know the dark side of "Being a Female in India."
Let there be the consciences shaken, people of all walks do some soul searching..take a pause and raise their voice, wherever they are, against the atrocities being meted out to girls and women, with a result that cruelity against the female gender starts receding, and we give to our generations to come a society where a woman is respected in its true essence-as as wife, as a sister, as a mother, as a grand mother et al..is the sole objective of this blog.
Amen.

Thursday 31 May 2012

Man held for raping daughter TNN | May 31, 2012, 02.43AM IST


PUNE: The Nigdi police on Wednesday arrested a 43-year-old man for allegedly raping his minor daughter at Nigdi on Tuesday night.
Senior police inspector of the Nigdi police stationNandkishore Bhosale Patil told TOI that the incident came to light on Wednesday morning, when the victim approached the police station and lodged a complaint against her father. The victim is a standard IX student.
He said that ever since their mother passed away four years ago, the victim and her two sisters stay with their father in a one-room house. "On Tuesday night, the three girls were asleep, when the victim's father woke her up and asked her to press his legs. When she went near him, he allegedly raped her."
Bhosale Patil said the suspect released the victim after his two other daughters woke up. "We arrested the man on Wednesday after receiving a complaint from the victim. The suspect was produced before the court and remanded to police custody till June 6."

Man rapes, blackmails 22-year-old TNN | May 31, 2012, 06.28AM IST

BHOPAL: A 22-year-old woman was allegedlyconnedraped and blackmailed for a long time by a married man in Bhopal. 

Police informed that the victim, daughter of an assistant sub inspector, came in contact with the accused, Sahil Khan alias Junaid, in 2009. About a year back, Junaid, who already has two wives and a son, tricked the woman into signing some documents which he claimed were marriage papers. Later, he took the girl to a deserted house near MLB College, outraged her modesty and made obscene video clips

He repeatedly kept exploiting her physically. He took away her jewellery and other important documents including her mark sheets too. 

Junaid then started blackmailing the victim with the video clips when she came to know about him and his family. 

The victim, finally, on Tuesday night registered a case against the accused at the Kamla Nagar police station. Junaid was booked for rape and fraud charges. He is at large and efforts are underway to nab him. 


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Wednesday 30 May 2012

ROHTAK ACID ATTACK CASE Bijendra Ahlawat/TNS


Rohtak, May 28
The police today arrested two youths for the acid attack on Saturday on an 18-year-old girl, who is also a volleyball player, here. A cousin of the victim, who is yet to be arrested, is reported to be the main accused. An affair is stated to be the main cause behind the incident. The two accused have been remanded in police custody till June 3 by the local court today.
The police, who was under political pressure to crack the case announced the breakthrough this morning. DSP Sumit Kumar said the arrests followed the rounding up of two suspects on Sunday. The suspects revealed that they had been hired by Ram Niwas (28), a resident of Jamni village of Jind district, to throw acid on the victim.
The interrogation of the arrested youths, identified as Neeraj and Pradeep, has revealed that Ram Niwas, son of an aunt of the victim, had an “affair” with the victim but when the latter did not respond to his overtures, he decided to teach her a lesson. Ram Niwas had reportedly tried to throw acid on the girl himself, but he could not succeed and sought the help of two youths known to him. He promised to pay them Rs 1.25 lakh to win them over.
“While an advance of Rs 25,000 was paid a day before the attack, Ram Niwas had promised to pay the rest of the money after throwing the acid, said police officials. Admitting that both the victim and her family members did not provide any clue, the DSP said the policemen who had been working in three different teams got a breakthrough with the help of the call details of the mobile phone of the victim and raided several places before arresting the youths from their village last evening.
One of the accused had also received burn injuries while throwing the chemical, added the police. The motorcycle used in the incident has also been recovered. The victim, Ritu Saini, has been admitted to the PGIMS here at present and is out of danger.

Couple beats up deaf girl for plucking mango Pradeep Gupta, TNN | May 29, 2012, 04.52AM IST

THANE: A 14-year-old deaf girl was allegedly assaulted by her neighbours when she tried to pluck a mango from a tree at Aangaon villagein Bhiwandi

However, when the victim's family went to lodge a complaint against the neighbour, the police instead registered a non-cognizable offence against the victim's mother, Prema Shinde, for assaulting the neighbour. 

Shinde said that last week her daughter plucked a mango from a tree in their neighbour's house. "Vanita Kadam and her husband Vishnu Kadam beat her up despite knowing that she was deaf," she said. 

When the victim's family approached the Ganeshpuri police station, they found that the police had lodged a non-congnizable offence against Shinde. She alleged that the police refused to register a complaint against the Kadams. However, when the victim's family protested, the police filed a non-congnizable offence. 

S M Chaudhary, in-charge of Ganeshpuri police station, said, "It is our duty to lodge a complaint. We will question both the parties and take action."


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Tuesday 29 May 2012

Honour killing: 19-year-old boy arrested for killing teen sister TNN | May 29, 2012, 05.22AM IST


KARNAL: A 19-year-old youth was arrested on Monday for murdering his teenaged sister, whom he suspected of having an affair. The weapon used by him in the crime, a knife, has also been recovered.
Paras confessed to killing his sister Payal, a class 12 student, after she refused to stop meeting the man with whom she had an affair. She was found in a pool of blood, with stab wounds at her home in Ashok Nagar area on May 20.
A case under Section 302 (murder) of IPC has been registered against Paras even as police are probing the role of other family members in the crime. Superintendent of police Shashank Anand said they were informed about the murder by Payal's father Naresh, who claimed he was in Ambala when she was killed.
Police though said Naresh tried to mislead investigators by claiming Payal committed suicide as she was under the influence of "evil powers" and was suffering from depression.
"Circumstantial evidence and nature of injuries, especially five stab wounds and injury on her head and skull, present a clear picture of murder," said Anand.
Paras told police that he had caught Payal speaking to her boyfriend over the phone. "In a fit of rage he banged his sister's head against the wall and stabbed her repeatedly," said Anand.
The police nabbed Paras after probing Payal's call records to trace her boyfriend, who told the police that her family members, especially her brother, were staunchly opposed to their relationship.

Minor rape victim breaks silence after a month TNN | May 29, 2012, 06.41AM IST

JAIPUR: She kept silent for a month even after being allegedly gangraped by a vidhyarthi mitra, a teacher employed by the government to assist school dropouts, and four others at Vadiya village in Pali district. 

Thanks to her parents and neighbours, who instilled courage in her to speak out against the heinous crime, she finally came out in the open.

The alleged rapists had reportedly told her to keep quiet or face dire consequences if she narrated her plight to the police. 

However, late on Sunday evening, the girl lodged a case of abduction and rape against the teacher and his accomplices. 

The teacher, Narendra Singh, knew the victim for several years and she had reportedly developed a liking for him. According to the police, the accused on April 26 took her to an isolated place where he and four others allegedly gangraped her. 

After the incident, the girl's family was living in fear as the accused had threatened to kill them if they leaked out the incident. 

Asked why the girl kept silent for more than a month, Sawai Singh, station house officer, Siviari police station, told TOI on Monday: "The alleged rapists had threatened to kill her along with family members and were also reportedly keeping a vigil on them. The family received threat calls four times a month. However, they mustered some courage after thorough discussions and on Sunday evening approached us."


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Another baby girl abandoned in Cuttack TNN | May 28, 2012, 11.30PM IST


CUTTACK: The Millennium City is grappling with a peculiar problem of deserted baby girls. In the last six months, six such incidents have taken place in the city, the latest occurring on Sunday night at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Post Graduate Institute of Pediatrics, popularly known as Sishu Bhawan. An ailing premature baby girl was abandoned by a couple at the hospital. The baby was admitted in the old ward of the hospital on Sunday morning but in the evening hours when the infant was sleeping, her parents fled from the hospital.
The hospital authorities came to know about the incident in the night when the nurses sought the baby's mother to feed her. According to hospital authorities, a woman, who gave her name as Mamata Pradhan, along with her husband Bhakti Ranjan Pradhan had admitted the newborn baby to the hospital on Sunday morning.
"The couple had pre-planned to abandon the baby at the hospital. They admitted the baby in the hospital in the morning and after a few hours they fled with all their belongings, leaving the little baby on the bed," said a nurse at the hospital. Due to premature delivery, the baby is underweight and has been kept in the incubator. "The baby is very weak and weighs only 1.5 kg. She has been kept in the incubator and nurses are taking proper care of her," said a doctor treating the infant.
Meanwhile, hospital authorities have informed the police about the incident. "The admission ticket of the baby reveals that her parents are from Baritola village in Jagatsinghpur district. We have given the address to police to look for her parents. Till then the baby will be kept in the hospital," said Hiranya Mohanty, superintendent of the hospital.
The district Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has also launched a search operation for the abandoned baby's parents. "Our team has already gone to Jagatsinghpur district in search of the baby's parents. But it's a matter of concern as the incidences of deserting baby girls is rising in the city," said Rini Mohanty, member of CWC.
Exposing a heartless side of the city, twin baby girls were abandoned at the railway platform in November last year. A few days later, a baby girl was rescued from the roadside in Manglabagh area. In a much publicized incident recently, another baby girl has been lying abandoned in the neo-natal unit of SCB hospital as her parents have refused to accept her. They have alleged that their baby boy was swapped with the girl child.

Lecturer booked for sexual harassment in Mundikota TNN | May 29, 2012, 02.31AM IST


GONDIA: Lecturer Sanjay Kalbande of Subhash School and Junior College, Mundikotain Tiroda tehsil was booked for cheating, sexual exploitation and atrocities on one of his tribal students. Offence has also been registered against his three colleagues and eight members of the lecturer's family.
According to police sources, a tribal girl of Navegaon Khurd village of Tiroda tehsil was a student of this school and college since year 1998-99 and prof Sanjay Kalbandhe was her lecturer and after completing her studies she started teaching in this school on honorarium basis. Meanwhile, Kalbande had been assuring her that he would pay the required amount for her regular appointment in this school and on the pretext of marriage, keeping her in the dark about her first marriage, developed sexual relationship with her from August 2011 till May 5 2012. Finally, they got married at Rukmini Temple in Korni Ghat on May 1, 2012.
The ceremony was attended by Sanjay's colleagues Vijay Bhanadarkar, RD Patle and Bhaurao Nagmoti. After marriage, when Sanjay took the bride home, his first wife and other members of his family denied them entry into the house. The girl then lodged a complaint with Tiroda police .
Dy SP of Tiroda, Anil Paraskar is investigating further the matter.

Woman hacked in BTM Layout TNN | May 29, 2012, 03.58AM IST

BANGALORE: A young woman was hacked to death on Monday evening by two bike-borne assailants in full public view on 7th Cross, BTM Layout. 

Divya S, 23, an employee of a private company, was heading to her NS Palya home at 6.45pm when the two men blocked her. They slashed her repeatedly on the neck and face with a machete before speeding away on their two-wheeler, which bore no registration number. It was all over in 40 seconds, eyewitnesses told TOI. 

While some shocked passersby ran away, others tried to stop the assailants. The rush-hour traffic was blocked for nearly 30 minutes, and police had a tough time clearing vehicles and shifting Divya to Sagar Hospital on Bannerghatta Road. 

Divya succumbed to her injuries at 9pm. Her family members said she breathed her last even before she was taken to the operation theatre. 

Deputy commissioner of police, southeast, PS Harsha told TOI: "We have definite clues about the assailants and will arrest them shortly." 

The incident took place a stone's throw away from the IPS officers' colony, where senior officers, including DG&IGP-in-charge A R Infant and former city police commissioner Shankar Bidari, reside. 

Divya worked as administrative head with a private footwear-manufacturing company inKoramangala. She is survived by her parents and three sisters. Hailing from Kundapur, the family shifted to Bangalore around five years ago. 

Last month, a friend of Divya is reported to have proposed to her, but she said "no" as she had already chosen her life partner, a friend of hers said. Divya's colleagues said she moved around with the man, making him think she was in love with him. 


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Three cops held for raping minor inside police post TNN | May 29, 2012, 03.39AM IST

LUCKNOW: Three police constables and their civilian friend were arrested and sent to jail in Budaun in connection with the rape of a minor girl inside a police outpost late in the night on Sunday. Allegations are that the victim and her maternal grandfather were brought to the police outpost after the locals near Durgah Barde Sarkar got suspicious of their behaviour and informed the police. At the police outpost, the cops first allegedly demanded Rs 20,000 from the duo to let them free. When the two expressed their inability to meet their demands, the cops allegedly assaulted the old man while their civilian friend raped her at the police outpost itself. 

The accused were however arrested when the same locals who had handed her over to the police, overheard her cries from inside the police outpost and informed the senior officials who reached the site and caught the accused red handed. Police then registered a case of rape and assault against three police constables on duty at the police outpost and their civilian friend involved in the crime. The four accused were later sent to jail. 

A native of Rampur district, the minor girl had come to Budaun to visit Durgah Barde Sarkar situated in Lal Pul area under Kotwali police circle on Sunday evening. Two constables from theLal Pul police outpost under Kotwali city police station - later identified as Ausaaf Ali and Majid Hussain - arrived at the scene on a motorcycle and brought the duo to the police outpost, a couple of hundred meters away from the Durgah. After sustained grilling, the cops allegedly demanded Rs 20,000 from the duo to set them free. When they expressed their inability to pay the cops, the two cops left the site leaving behind constable Sumit Kumar at the outpost on watch duty. 

According to the victim, shortly thereafter constable Sumit once again started questioning the duo when he was joined by one Gopal - later identified as a local resident and a friend of the cops. Allegations are that Gopal started misbehaving with the minor girl, her grandfather objected to it. This left the two so angry that Sumit assaulted the old man while Gopal dragged the girl away to another room. 

SSP Budaun RK Srivastava said that on the complaint of the girl a case of rape was lodged against the two accused and the other constables who brought the girl to the outpost were also rounded up and arrested as accused.


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Sunday 27 May 2012

25-yr-old raped by aunt's boyfriend Vijay Singh, TNN | May 27, 2012, 02.32AM IST

NAVI MUMBAI: A 25-year-old nursing student was raped by her aunt's African 31-year-old boyfriend. The victim, who hails from Manipur, is currently admitted to Dr D Y Patil Hospital in Nerul where she will undergo reconstructive surgery on her private parts owing to the severe injuries she sustained during the rape. She has already undergone colostomy, a surgical procedure in which a pipe is inserted into the abdomen to remove stools and urine separately. 

The incident took place on May 13 in Bangalore when the victim went there with her aunt to meet the latter's boyfriend identified as Prince John alias Johnson. The victim's aunt works in a spa in Mumbai. In the morning hours of May 13 when the aunt was still asleep in Johnson's house, he asked the victim to accompany him to his friend's house to fetch water. The unsuspecting victim agreed as there was a water shortage at that time. 

On reaching his friend's flat in the same complex, Johnson allegedly raped her. Johnson then threatened the victim, who was bleeding profusely, against telling anyone, especially her aunt, about the incident. He told the victim to tell her aunt that she had started her menstrual period. Johnson also bought two air tickets for the victim and her aunt to return to Mumbai. 

When the victim's bleeding did not stop for the next four days, her aunt took her to a nursing home in south Mumbai on May 17. 

A doctor who examined the victim then told her aunt that she had sustained serious injuries on her private parts and will need surgery. That's when the victim broke down and confided in her aunt. The women then contacted another Manipuri doctor, who managed to get the victim admitted to Dr D Y Patil Hospital for the reconstructive surgery. 

Former vice chairman of Maharashtra Minorities Commission Abraham Mathai, who recently came to know about this case, informed the Navi Mumbai police. Late on Saturday, the Nerul police registered an FIR. Navi Mumbai additional commissioner of police Ashok Dongre said, "After I was informed by Mathai, I asked DCP (zone 1) Purushottam Karad to investigate the matter." 

Police officials went to the hospital and recorded the victim's statement. 

Mathai, who has been helping the victim and her family, told TOI, "I have also contacted Karnataka's additional police commissioner T Sunil Kumar and he has promised to take action against the accused. The accused had earlier claimed that he was from Jamaica and worked in the courier service business, we suspect he is hiding his real motives.'' Mathai also questioned why the doctor at the south Mumbai nursing home did not inform the police about this aggravated sexual assault.


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Home guard rapes woman TNN | May 27, 2012, 02.28AM IST

NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old home guard ofDelhi Police was arrested recently in theMongolpuri area of Outer Delhi for allegedlyraping a 20-year-old woman from the northeast. According to police, the home guard had allegedly laced her cold drink with drugs and raped her about 10 days ago. Police arrested him after the woman's medical report confirmed rape. 

Sources in Mongolpuri police said the victim, from Assam, forged a friendship with him recently. The woman, who works at a private firm, was drugged when she agreed to accompany the man to the local market. She was then taken to the house of the home guard and raped, said a police source. 

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Saturday 26 May 2012

Retired senior medical officer, four others booked in gangrape case TNN | May 26, 2012, 08.54AM IST


CHANDIGARH: Mewat police booked five persons, including a retired Senior Medical Officer (SMO) of a Primary Health Centre (PHC), for having gangraped a 19-year-old girl belonging to the minority community for 14 days, at the SMO's residence on the PHC premises, and other places.
Cops registered a case of gangrape at Punhana police station of Mewat district. Besides the accused SMO, Dr Manish Bhalla, who retired from office on April 30, others named in the case are Dr Ashish Bengali, a registered medical practitioner; Azad Singh and Hasam, sarpanch and a resident of Gheeda village; and Hafizan, a woman belonging to Singar village.
According to police, Dr Manish Bhalla and others were accused of sexually exploiting the victim between April 28 to May 12. Cops are awaiting reports of medical tests done on the girl. Mewat SP Pankaj Nain said, "No external injuries were inflicted on the girl. Investigation is on and we are analyzing the statement recorded by the victim."
Punhana SHO Anil Kumar, while attributing to the details in the FIR, said Hafizan, in her early 40s, introduced the victim to Dr Manish, who, along with Ashish Bengali and Hasan, abused her for the initial four days at the official residence of the doctor.
Then, Azad Singh and others took the girl to rooms constructed on the stone crusher owned by Bhani Ram Mangla and committed the crime, before dumping the girl near Singar village.
A police officer said, "The victim's family approached us on Thursday. We are trying to ascertain why the family did not complain right after the girl was abandoned by the accused, and the reason why no 'missing' report was lodged."

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Teenager gang-raped in Navi Mumbai; 1 arrested TNN | May 26, 2012, 01.58AM IST


NAVI MUMBAI: A 17-year-old schoolgirl was gang-raped by two acquaintances in a car in Panvel taluka on Wednesday evening.


One of the accused, Naresh Patil (21), has been arrested by the Panvel city police.


A police official told TOI that the victim lodged a complaint only on Thursday.


The accused, who are from the same village of the victim, offered her lift in a car, and raped her in a secluded place.


They threatened her not to tell anyone about it. The victim is studying in ninth standard at a local school. 
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Spurned lover stabs teenage girl 14 times TNN | May 26, 2012, 01.43AM IST

P GANNAVARAM (EAST GODAVARI): A teenage girl was attacked and seriously injured by her neighbour on Friday morning at Burugukunta village after she spurned his marriage proposal. The accused allegedly slit her throat and then stabbed the girl 14 times.

M Dhana Lakshmi, a polytechnic student, was rushed to the Amalapuram area hospital in a critical condition. She was taken to Kakinada when her condition deteriorated.

Kolli Kishore Kumar, 23, a farm labourer, had been pestering Lakshmi to marry him for the last two years. She had refused his proposal and informed her parents who scolded Kishore. Sources said Kishore confronted her again on Friday and when she refused, he stabbed her with a knife.

The accused fled from the spot and police have launched a manhunt. 



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Friday 25 May 2012

Man sets wife, little daughter ablaze Rajiv Kalkod | May 9, 2012, 03.36AM IST

BANGALORE: A man's craving to wed repeatedly took a ghastly turn when he set his second wife and their baby daughter on fire after she opposed his plan for a third marriage. V Chandana, 18 months old, was charred to death, while her mother, V Asha, was rushed toVictoria Hospital, where she is battling for life with 80% burns. 

R Venugopal, who set his family afire, is absconding with his parents and brother. 

Venugopal had identified a relative to become his third wife. But Asha opposed the marriage plan and filed a dowry harassment case. 

Around 1pm on Tuesday, an infuriated Venugopal set his wife and their daughter on fire in their ground-floor residence in Manjunatha Layout, TC Palya, near K R Puram. 

Hearing Asha and Chandana's screams, neighbours rushed in, doused the fire and called for help. Chandana died much before an ambulance arrived. Asha told police Venugopal set them on fire and fled. 

I saw a bundle of fire, says neighbour 

Asha was in flames as she ran out of home





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From womb to bin Vinay Sarawagi | May 5, 2012

On Thursday, a newborn girl dumped in a garbage bin in Gurgaon two weeks ago died at a government hospital in Rohtak. The girl had been bitten by mosquitoes and dogs. This isn't a stray case. In the last one month, more than 15 instances of newborn girls being dumped have been reported in Haryana. 

"No one wants a girl in Haryana, "says the manager of a government-run childcare centre. "Even those who come to adopt babies seek boys. "The observation is backed by data: the state's child sex ratio is the lowest in the country. For every 1, 000 boys registered at birth, there are just 830 girls, according to Census 2011. 

While female foeticide is an old evil in Haryana's patriarchal society, abandonment of newborn girls is a recent trend. "We are getting such cases almost daily, "says Dr Narvir Singh, director general of health services, Haryana. 

However, Sabu George, who has been actively campaigning against the practice of sex selection for more than two decades, says the media has turned undue spotlight on abandonment. 

"Abandonment is a small problem compared to sex selection, which was responsible for seven million female foeticides in the last decade alone, "George says. "Abandonment cases are isolated. It's convenient for everybody to highlight them because then questions on prevalence of sex selection don't get asked. An abandoned baby has some chances of survival, but sex selection is murder. " 

He says the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act, 1994 is not being strictly implemented in Haryana. "It's very easy to find out the sex of a foetus and the doctors get away with almost anything, "George says. 

After Census 2011 placed Haryana at the bottom of the sex-ratio list, the state government launched an ambitious plan to map all ultrasound machines, especially in villages that fared the worst. Since the drive started, the authorities say 70 cases have been filed under the PNDT Act, 1994, leading to legal action against 30 people, including 25 doctors. Under the districtlevel Sex Ratio Improvement Programme, 177 illegal ultrasound machines have been seized and the licences of 327 ultrasound centres have been cancelled. Tightening the noose around the sex selection trade, unfortunately, may lead to a rise in the cases of abandonment, fears Singh. 

The way out, say experts, is through education. "To provide dignity to the girl child, law and society need to work in tandem. The law needs to be supplemented with advocacy for social change, "says Jitendra Nagpal, psychiatrist, Moolchand Medcity Hospital, Delhi. "Gender stabilization should become the hallmark of progress. We need to address it with more urgency than economic growth. "

HALL OF SHAME 


Three abandoned baby girls are undergoing treatment at PGIMS in Rohtak. In the last two weeks, four such babies have been admitted to the hospital On April 18, an infant with multiple infections was rushed here after she was found abandoned in a park in Bhiwani. She is recuperating On April 23, a three-day-old girl with acute liver infection was admitted to PGIMS. Her condition remains critical On April 27, a baby girl, who was found near a bus stand of Dharuhera town was taken to hospital. Her condition is stable A baby girl was delivered in the toilet of the PGIMS and then left there Last month, an abandoned baby girl was found in Sonipat and bodies of two newborn girls were recovered from a garbage dump in Ambala.


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Minor molested TNN | May 9, 2012, 02.34AM IST


NAGPUR: Two youths entered a house and molested a 17-year-old girl while she was at her sister's home with her nephew. The incident took place on Monday afternoon under the jurisdiction of Hudkeshwar police station. tnn
Police said last week the girl had come to her sister's home in Nagpur. Around 4.30pm, she was alone with her nephew when one of the accused, Nitin Zade from Girad, and his friend entered the house and molested her. The girl screamed and alerted the neighbours. Fearing people's rage, Zade friend fled the spot but Zade was caught and handed over to cops.

Burnt & hacked, body of woman found in Ghaziabad TNN | May 9, 2012, 12.55AM IST


GHAZIABAD: The burnt body of a woman was found hacked inside an abandoned suitcase in the Muradnagar area on Tuesday morning. Police suspect the woman, who seems to be in her late 20s, may have been murdered in Delhi or Ghaziabad and later dumped on NH-24.
Sources said a suitcase emitting foul smell was noticed by passersby on the highway, who then informed police. "The body had been hacked to fit it into the suitcase. It had been partly burnt with the intention of hiding the identity of the deceased,'' said an officer. He said no missingreport for a woman had been filed in local police stations, which is why cops are thinking that the woman may be from outside Ghaziabad. Sources said the body pieces had been wrapped in a saree.
Recently, two bodies were found in the capital, one from inside the LNJP Hospital and the other from near a Metro Pillar in Nehru Place. Officials claimed that the deceased seemed to belong to either the homeless or the migrant class who barely stay in one address for more than a few days. Bodies of several persons who have been killed are thrown on roads, drains, railway tracks and secluded areas. Curiously, railway tracks have seen a good 40 percent of such bodies. Most of them, recovered late, are in such condition that it becomes impossible to ascertain whether he or she was a victim of accident or foul play. According to police officers, a large number of bodies are found in drains flowing into Delhi from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Recently, there has been a spate of unidentified bodies which have been recovered in the capital triggering chief minister Sheila Dikshit to meet Home Minister P Chidambaram.

Engineering student held for molesting two women in Pune


PUNE: The Sahakarnagar police on Wednesday arrested an engineering student for allegedly attacking and molesting two employees of the central railway.
The incident took place on a ground on Taljai hillock on Wednesday afternoon, when thewomen had come for their daily running practice. The police said the suspect, Abhishek Dinesh Singh, hails from Bihar. Singh is pursuing his engineering degree from a city-based private engineering college. One of the victims has lodged a complaint against him.
Singe was produced before the court on Thursday and released on bail after being remanded to magisterial custody.
Assistant police inspector C B Mane of the Sahakarnagar police station said that the incident took place around 3.45 pm on Wednesday. "While the two women were running, Singh approached them and pushed the complainant's friend down. Singh then started gagging her with a handkerchief," Mane said.
Mane said that when the complainant tried to rescue her friend, Singh also assaulted the complainant and hit her near her eye. "Singh also allegedly molested the victim," Mane said. Both the women raised an alarm for help. The people on the ground nabbed Singh and handed him over to the police.
Singh has been charged under sections 324 (Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) and 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code.


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