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.

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.

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.

Violence is generally interpreted as physical, sexual and mental abuse of individuals.

Before discussing the subject, first let us see the definition of rape.

The Indian family welfare program is a centrally sponsored scheme, implemented by the State governments within the framework of elaborate guidelines and norms developed by the Central Government.

The issues of equality of access to health care has two related questions - access whom and access to what? They seem to have a simple answer: there should be access to health care services for anyone in need of it.