In a shocking incident, a twelve-year-old rape victim gave birth to a premature baby girl on Monday. The critical delivery took place at Mumbai’s JJ Hospital.

The victimised child had not even attained puberty while giving birth. Meanwhile, the baby weighed 1.4 kg at birth and was shifted to the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. With the available medical history, doctors believe that the prterm baby was born after 8 months of pregnancy.

The 12-year-old girl and her mother were sent by the police to the JJ Hospital for a medical exmaination to confirm her rape. A few hours after arriving at the hospital the child went into labour. Strangely the child’s pregnancy was confirmed merely a week before the delivery.

A report in The Hindu quotes police inspector Mahesh Patil of Palghar’s Manor police station as having stated that the girl had complained of stomach pain to her mother. A medical check-up at a local hospital had confirmed the child’s pregnancy. Following which, the girl’s mother filed a complaint with thw police naming the child’s stepfather as the assaulter.

A Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Court on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment to mafia don Rajendra S. Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan and eight others found guilty in the sensational June 2011 killing of journalist J. Dey.

The verdict was pronounced by Special MCOCA Court Judge Sameer Adkar, after several hours of arguments between Special Public Prosecutor Pradip Gharat and the defence lawyers on the quantum of punishment after nine of the accused were held guilty this morning.

The court acquitted two co-accused, including former journalist Jigna Vora and Joseph Paulson, who was charged with providing mobile SIM cards for executing the planned murder.

Two children were injured, one critically, when unknown people threw stones at a school bus this morning in Shopian in south Kashmir. There were more than 50 children on the bus, including four-year-old nursery students of a private school.

A Class 2 student who suffered a head injury is critical in a hospital in Srinagar. Another boy hit on his head was discharged after treatment.

“My son has been injured in stone pelting, this is against humanity. This could have been anyone’s child,” said his father.

The police are looking for the stone-throwers. “The stone pelters hurled stones around 9.25. The bus belongs to Rainbow International school,” said police officer Shailendra Kumar.

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Stones thrown at school bus with 50 children in Shopian

There was immediate condemnation across the political spectrum.

4The chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti tweeted, “Shocked and angered to hear of the attack on a school bus in Shopian. The perpetrators of this senseless and cowardly act will be brought to justice.”

The house of a ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MLA was attacked on Wednesday with a petrol bomb in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district.

Police said unknown persons hurled the bomb at the house of Muhammad Yusuf in Memander village. “A portion of the house caught fire but it was immediately doused,” a police officer said.

The Kerala cabinet on Wednesday decided to give compensation of Rs 10 lakh and a government job to the wife of 26-year-old Sreejith, who died in police custody in March.

Sreejith’s wife, Akhila, who holds the police “primarily responsible” for how their family was “decimated”, has welcomed the development.

“The steps taken by the government is good. The police are solely responsible as my husband was innocent,” she said.

The victim’s mother Shyamala said the government must bring officials responsible for her son’s death to justice. “Each and every one who did this to my son have to be brought before the law.”

“We have approached the high court seeking a CBI probe. All those police officers who did this to my son must be taken to task. None should be allowed to escape,” the mother said.

Trouble started for Sreejith after 56-year-old Vasudevan hanged himself after a group of men barged into his house and threatened him.

A special squad of the police took Sreejith, father of a two-year-old, and nine others into custody on April 7 and charged them with abetment to suicide and rioting.

Subsequently, Sreejith was taken to a hospital where he died on April 9.

Following a huge uproar on the social media, the Pinarayi Vijayan government went on the defensive and a Special Investigation Team of the police-led by Inspector General S. Sreejith was given the probe.

The probe team has arrested three policemen who first took Sreejith into custody on April 7 night.

Sub-Inspector Deepak and Circle Inspector Crispin Sam have also been arrested. According to informed sources Ernakulam Superintendent of Police(Rural) A.V. George might also be summoned for questioning.

George was transferred after it came to light the three policemen taken into custody were directly under his control.

The case has become a major campaign issue in the crucial Chengannur assembly bye-election slated for May 28.

Taj Ganj police Station House Officer (SHO) Shailendra Kumar said a fellow scientist had filed a written complaint against the accused Vishnu Dutt Sharma, 62, saying that he lured a minor girl to his house and tried to sexually abuse her.

The victim told her mother about what had happened to her. The police was immediately contacted, the complaint said.

Another neighbour confirmed that his daughter too had been a victim.

Several others told the police that the scientist used to call girls luring them with chocolates.

Sharma, who works for the Jalma Institute, is slated to retire in September.

A shocking video showing a group of eight youth molesting a minor girl in Bihar’s Jehanabad area has gone viral and has been doing the rounds on social media since Saturday evening.

In the video, the youth were seen molesting, dragging and undressing the victim while lifting her off her feet. The girl is seen pleading with the men and resisting their attacks. Onlookers shot a video of the incident instead of helping the girl.

Patna zonal IG Nayyar Hasnain Khan on Sunday formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the unverified video.

“4 people have been arrested in connection with the case. Faces of two people have been matched with people in the video and other two were making the clip. Other 4 to 5 people have been named by them. Search operation is underway,” news agency ANI quoted Patna Zonal IG on Jehanabad Nayyar Hasnain Khan saying.

After the intervention of the state cybercrime branch, the video was removed from social media but was still available on instant messaging platforms.

According to reports, police have identified a motorbike from the video with a Jehanabad registration number and initiated investigation to locate the culprits.

The Town police station in Jehanabad has registered an FIR against unknown people based on the registration number of a bike, which could be spotted in the video.

The SIT is led by Jehanabad SP Maneesh. SHO of Town police station SK Singh said, “The FIR has been lodged under Section 376 (rape) and 511 (punishment for offences punishable with life or other imprisonments) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 8 (sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.”

A doctor received four gunshot injuries early on Sunday when four unidentified assailants fired at him near his farmhouse in south Delhi, police said.

Police said the victim Hans Nagar suspected his two brothers were behind the murderous attack.

Hans Nagar had reached near the entrance to his farmhouse in Fatehpuri Beri from his clinic in south Delhi’s Siri Fort area around 1.50 a.m. when four unidentified attackers riding two motorcycles stopped nearby and fired more than a dozen rounds at him.

Nagar claimed he also fired from his licensed pistol and injured one-two attackers, Deputy Commissioner of Police Romil Baaniya said.

Nagar’s security staff called police and the orthopaedic doctor was taken to a private hospital in Gurugram. He is undergoing treatment.

“Nagar told police he suspected his brothers John and Ron and four others were behind the attack due to longstanding dispute over Gurugram property,” the officer said.

As many as 22 spent cartridges and two rounds of 9 mm and .32 bore pistols were seized from the spot.

He said some suspects have been detained and CCTV footage from the area scanned to identify the suspects, who were suspected to be hired criminals.

In a horrific and shameful act, a woman forced her 13-year-old niece to get drunk after which she allowed her boyfriend to rape the child in a forested area in outer Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy on Sunday night.

The 30-year-old woman has been arrested while her boyfriend, the alleged rapist, Mukesh Kumar is on the run,

The woman, the child’s aunt, used to look after the family as the girl’s mother had left her and her father.

According to the police, the woman allegedly lured the girl to her home before walking her to a forested area nearby. Mukesh was waiting there in his mini truck.

“The woman tried to trick the girl into drinking alcohol by mixing it with soft drinks. When the girl refused to drink, her aunt forced her. The woman and Mukesh too were drinking,” an investigator was quoted as saying by media.

The officer said, Mukesh raped the girl once she was in an inebriated state with the woman staying around when the crime was being committed.

He added that the woman knew of rape and that the police suspect it to be pre-planned.

As a result, IPC section pertaining to criminal conspiracy was added to the case.

The incident came to light, when the girl’s father saw her bleeding and in pain on Monday. She was rushed to Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital where the doctors told that she had been raped.

Rajneesh Gupta, deputy commissioner of police (Rohini) said a case has been registered under Indian Penal Code sections 376 (rape), 328 (causing hurt by intoxicating substance with intent to commit an offence), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120B (criminal conspiracy). The duo has also been booked under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

This incident took place on the day when President Ram Nath Kovind promulgated an ordinance to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.

The Union Cabinet on Saturday approved the ordinance to allow courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping girls under 12 years.

In case of rape of a girl under 16 years, the minimum punishment was increased from 10 years to 20 years, extendable to imprisonment for rest of life, which means jail term till the convict’s “natural life”.

The ordinance gained significance in the wake of huge outrage over Kathua and Unnao rape cases.

The juducial custody of Mohammed Haris Nalapad, has been expanded once again, till May 11.

It has been reported that, Harris legal team tried to exploit the delay of the police in filing charge sheet against him, and his accomplices to secure bail for him.

However, Vidvat’s legal team made it clear that Haris has been booked under serious charges which, if proven, could lead to more than 10 years’ imprisonment and the deadline for filing charge sheet in such cases was 90 days, not 60.

Nalapad was arrested for brutally attacking Vidvath Loganathan at Farzi Cafe in UB City on February 17.