All marriages between Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) or Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) and Indian citizens should be compulsorily registered in India, the Law Commission recommended to the Union government on Friday.

Four of the five juveniles, who were arrested in early June in connection with the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl abducted from a Hyderabad pub, were released on bail late on Tuesday.

Four men allegedly gang-raped a 16-year-old girl in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district when she was on her way to a relative’s place on Saturday, police said on Tuesday.

According to the police, the incident took place on Friday night when the minor girl and her mother were heading to Roorkee from Kaliyar, Haridwar in a rickshaw.

A majority of women in West Bengal and Jharkhand were married by the age of 21, while the proportion in Jammu and Kashmir was less than 10% in 2020. In Delhi, over 17% of women married before 21.

Noting that the gang-rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Ramesh Nagar in 2012 was done in the most “brutal and diabolic manner”, the Delhi high court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment (for the remainder of their natural lives) to three persons convicted of the crime.

Chandigarh: Parents of minor children who are victims of sexual crimes cannot arrive at a compromise with the perpetrator, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled.

With the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aiming to eliminate child and early marriage by 2030, there are renewed and magnified efforts to address the issu

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