child abuse

A video has gone viral on social media where a man in red t-shirt can be seen beating his three-year-old girl mercilessly while the traumatised child cries for help.

The boys were rescued after local residents saw the boys chained to a bench and alerted the police.

Muzaffarpur shelter home had hit the headlines in June 2018 after a social audit report highlighted that over 42 girls were allegedly mentally and physically abused at a government-aided home, run by Brajesh Thakur.

Begusarai is on tenterhooks as the news of a Dalit girl being allegedly sexually assaulted by a young man from the Muslim community has come to the fore, raising communal tempers in the region

Madarsa teacher Suleman Ansari allegedly used the CCTV camera inside a classroom to watch students changing clothes.

Reporting of child abuse and sexual assaults meted out to children enrolled in madarsas were considered as taboo until recently and had largely gone un-reported

The recently shared video by AIB had edited portions of a famous scene from Bollywood blockbuster Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and showed the little girl rolling up a joint and smoking it in a school event. AIB now seems to have deleted the video from their Facebook and Instagram pages.

the Centre had earlier introduced a bill to amend POCSO Act, 2012 in May earlier this year in an attempt to introduce the death penalty for child rapists, but the bill had lapsed following the dissolution of the Lok Sabha.

The amendments to the POCSO Act also seek to curb child pornography by imposing fine and providing imprisonment.

According to police, Khan would lure the minors, take them to secluded places and rape them. If they resisted, he would kill them.