An AI-generated illustration of a minor girl calling a child helpline in distress to report a forced marriage Pune: A 17-year-old girl’s timely call to a child helpline recently foiled her forced marriage and led the police to book her father, a labour contractor, for allegedly forging her Aadhaar card to conceal her age and…
Surat: A 21-year-old contractual worker allegedly died by suicide after being repeatedly raped, threatened and harassed by her labour contractor, who was arrested by Sachin GIDC police on Tuesday.Investigators recovered a four-page suicide note from the victim’s clothing in which she accused the contractor of rape, criminal intimidation and persistent torture.The victim, a native of…
Vadodara: The arrest of AAP’s Vadodara city unit chief Ashok Oza on rape and blackmail charges triggered a political storm, as police probe fresh allegations of repeated sexual assault, coercion and threats — the second offence registered against him within four days.City police arrested Oza on Tuesday after a 40-year-old woman filed a complaint at…
Pune: A sessions court in Shirur acquitted a sugar cane worker of slitting the throat of his seven-month-old daughter and throwing the body into a well, after he spent almost eight years in jail as an undertrial.The court held that the prosecution failed to establish a complete chain of circumstantial evidence against the sugar cane…
