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Tarun Tejpal case: Bombay HC orders Mapusa court not to let defence lawyers pose irrelevant questions to the victim

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2019

Tejpal is charged under several sections of the IPC for sexually assaulting his junior colleague inside a lift of a resort hotel in Goa during a media event in November 2013.

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Uttar Pradesh woman raped last year in Delhi threatened with fate ‘worse than Unnao’ if she appears in court

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2019

This is the third such incidents reported in the last few days where the rape accused has used the Unnao incident to threaten the victim.

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He holds me captive, tortures, threatens to kill: SP leader Aafaq Khan booked for sexually assaulting woman for 5 years

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2019

Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Aafaq Khan has been booked for sexually exploiting a woman and blackmailing her.

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Sanjiv Bhatt lied, told an imaginary ‘story’ about meeting the then Gujarat CM Modi, says Nanavati-Mehta Commission report

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2019

The report concluded that the former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt had lied and made up stories of him attending a meeting at the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi's residence on February 27, 2002.

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Bhopal: Woman given triple talaq by husband, raped by ‘healer’ Anwar Khan on pretext of Halala

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2019

Triple talaq is now a punishable offence carrying a three-year jail term. Still, numerous cases are being reported regularly.

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Ranchi: Lawyer who represented Richa Bharti against Quran distribution order shot dead, property dispute suspected

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2019

Ram Pravesh Singh had represented Richa Bharti in her legal fight against the court order which had asked her to distribute the copies of Quran over a complaint against her Facebook post.

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Tihar starts preparing to hang Nirbhaya rapists, specials ropes ordered from Bihar’s jail, dummy execution done: Read details

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2019

Arrangements for the execution of four rapists convicted in 2012 Nirbhaya case have begun at Tihar Jail

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Fatehpur gang-rape victim threatened with ‘Unnao-like’ fate by family members of accused if complaint not withdrawn

OpIndia Staff - 11 December, 2019

The 16-year-old rape victim, who is being threatened with 'Unnao like' fate, was allegedly abducted and raped by four men in a village in Ghazipur

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Mumbai: 22-year-old man stalked via Instagram, kidnapped and raped by four men

OpIndia Staff - 11 December, 2019

According to police officers from the VB Nagar police station, the four accused had stalked the 22-year-old victim on Instagram and had reached near a restaurant to approach him.

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