The Nawalparasi District Court has sentenced 10 men involved in the gang-rape of a women to 13 years in prison and a fine of Rs 100,000 each. A single bench of Judge Ashok Kumar Basnet sentenced each of them to nine years in prison for rape and another four years for gang-rape. The men had […]
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A teacher of a government school in Lalitpur has been arrested on the charge of raping a 15-year-old girl. Ravi Kepchhaki, a teacher who had family ties with the survivor, was arrested by the Lalitpur police on March 10 on the charge of raping a secondary school student. According to Lalitpur police, medical reports showed
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Local Sahid Alam’s six-year-old daughter was raped and subsequently murdered, her body recovered inside a sack near her house on Monday night in Bardibas of Mahottari district. The child had gone missing since Sunday evening after she went to buy chocolate from a nearby shop. Police have arrested 25-year-old Arun Kumar Sah of Gaushala Municipality
DHAKA, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s cabinet on Monday approved the death penalty for rapists amid nationwide protests in the wake of a series of gang rapes and sexual assaults. Bangladesh has seen a surge of sexual crimes in recent years, with nearly 1,000 incidents reported between January and September, more than a fifth of
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Aawaaj Report The demand for capital punishment soars every time reports of gruesome crimes dominate the headlines as emotions and rage run high. However, in countries like Nepal, where the certainty of punishment to the genuine perpetrator is relatively low and legal trials are often harder on victims than on the accused (often leading to
The suspect arrested in connection with the rape and murder of 12-year-old Samjhana Kami of Bajhang has confessed his involvement in the crime. Rajendra Bohara admitted to the police on Wednesday that he had killed Kami after raping her. He told investigating officers that he killed the child with a trident and a hammer after
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The Kaski District Court has remanded SSP Rajendra Prasad Adhikari of Armed Police Force to judicial custody on the charge of rape. A single bench of district judge Dipak Kumar Kharel issued the remand order on Tuesday after hearing on the case on Sunday and Monday. The district attorney’s office has registered a charge sheet
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— Ravi Nayak Although humans across the globe are suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, incidents of rape have failed to cease. While we are trying to recuperate from the mental as well as physical exhaustion brought about by the pandemic, learning about an increase in rape cases is certainly saddening. According to a recent
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An Indian judge is under pressure to delete comments from a court order that questioned the behaviour of a woman who alleged she was raped. Granting bail to the rape accused last week, Justice Krishna S Dixit of the Karnataka High Court said he found the woman’s statement “a bit difficult to believe”. Justice Dixit went
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Police have arrested Amrit Kumar Ghale, the economic advisor to Urban Development State Minister Rambir Manandhar, on charges of kidnapping, hostage-taking and raping a 17-year-old girl. The 52-year-old was arrested on February 13 after the minor girl’s parents filed a complaint with the police suspecting her abduction. According to police, Ghale had given the teenager
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