Bengaluru: In yet another rape shocker reported on Woman’s Day, a 36-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by three men, including husband of a GP member, at HSR layout police station limits in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

The woman, resident of E Krishnappa Colony, in her complaint said that the trio forcefully entered her house and raped her in front her adolescent son and even filmed the incident.

Santhosh Reddy, husband of a local GP member and two others were taken into custody by the police, following a complaint.

(Agencies)

Ranchi: A 15-year-old rape victim, undergoing treatment at a Jamshedpur hospital, was raped for a second time by a security guard of the hospital, police said on Monday.

The minor girl, admitted to Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, was allegedly raped by Shambhu Mahto, a security guard of the hospital, on Sunday night.

The security guard managed to flee the place after allegedly raping the girl. A woman staffer is also accused of helping the security guard to escape from the spot.

Police have launched a hunt for the accused. The security guards posted in the hospital have been interrogated.

The minor girl was earlier raped on January 26 by a 14-year-old boy. He was nabbed and sent to a remand home. The girl was hospitalised.

But she was again assaulted in the hospital when the security guard took the girl to the bathroom and allegedly raped her.

When the girl was raped her mother had gone to bring medicine.

Crimes against women, particularly rape, are rising in Jharkhand. Till November 2015, the total number of rape cases lodged in Jharkhand were 1,124 which was 967 during the same period in 2014.

(Agencies)

Ranchi: A group of inebriated army men allegedly gang-raped a 14-year-old girl on board the Howrah-Amritsar Express after forcing her to drink alcohol, police said on Monday.

Sources said the girl, a resident of Kolkata, boarded the Punjab-bound train at Howrah on Sunday but entered the coach reserved for army personnel by mistake.

One of the jawans got her drunk and two others then raped her when she went to the bathroom.

Social workers found her unconscious on the train when it stopped in Jharkhand’s Madhupur station.

“We have arrested one Mandreesh Tripathi who had offered liquor to the minor,” said Madhupur GRP’s officer in-charge, Arjun Tiwari. Sources said Tripathi has confessed he forced the minor to drink.

The girl was in shock and needed counselling.

(Agencies)

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday took up for discussion the Juvenile Justice amendment bill, a day after members cutting across party lines agreed that the important legislation should be taken up immediately.

The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014, provides for the trial of those between 16-18 years as adults for heinous offences. Also, anyone between the age of 16-18 who commits a less serious offence may be tried as an adult if he is apprehended after he attains the age of 21.

Giving out the bill’s details, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said borstals — a custodial institution for young offenders — would be set up under the proposed law to house juveniles accused of heinous crime.

“They (juvenile convicts) will not stay with adults in jails meant for adults… They will be kept in borstals. It does not exist at present… it will be created,” the minister said.

The convicted juvenile will stay in borstals till they attain the age of 21, and will be evaluated to decide whether they should be released.

“There will be a review… if they still have a criminal bent of mind, they will serve the complete sentence,” said the minister.

Maneka Gandhi said juvenile crime was being encouraged by the existing law.

“Juveniles’ involvement in crime is increasing the fastest. Children walk into police stations and say we have murdered… send us to a juvenile home,” the minister said.

Pointing out that even children committed crime against other children, she wondered: “Are we going to protect the victim or the criminal?”

“It (the bill) will stop a 16-year-old from saying ‘I have burnt a jhuggi. Send me to juvenile justice (board)’. ‘Or I have raped, murdered, send me to JJ…’,” Maneka Gandhi said.

(Agencies)

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the plea to stay the release of the 20-year-old who was convicted for the December 16, 2012 gang rape and was released from a remand home on Sunday.

The apex court in its judgement said to DCW: ‘We share your concern but under existing law, detention cannot go beyond 3 years’.

The Delhi Commission for Women, Swati Maliwal, had approached the Supreme Court to stay release of the juvenile convict, who is now 20 years old and was known to be the most brutal of the attackers.

“How many more Nirbhayas will we create before we change the system. Nirbhayas rapist should not be released under any circumstances today,” Maliwal tweeted.

“SC accepted petition. Matter was listed on Monday as Item No 3. Case subjudice now. Nirbhaya rapist should not be released until case heard,” Maliwal said in another tweet.

A vacation bench comprising Justices A K Goel and U U Lalit in their order pronounced at 2 AM on Sunday, posted the matter for hearing on Monday.

The Special Leave Petition filed by DCW against the order of the Delhi High Court, which refused to restrain the release of the convict, was referred by the Chief Justice of India T S Thakur before the vacation bench.

After the order by the court, DCW chairperson and the lawyers of the women’s panel hoped that since the matter has become sub judice, the government and Delhi Police will not release the juvenile offender today as scheduled.

The juvenile was moved out of Delhi on Saturday even as distraught parents of the victim strongly kept on opposing his release. The parents were briefly detained by the police after they held a protest against the convict’s release.

Sources said that the convict was taken to an undisclosed location from a correction home in North Delhi amid concerns that there was threat to his life.

They said the juvenile has been kept under observation of an NGO under protection of Delhi Police.

(PTI)

New Delhi: An 18-year-old girl is battling for life after being raped repeatedly by different men for the last six months. The girl has been admitted to Delhi’s Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital with severe injuries all over her body and doctors say her condition is serious.

The girl has told the police that she was trafficked from West Bengal last year and was taken to Rishikesh, Haridwar, Manali, Mangaluru and other places where she was raped by different men.

According to a report in Hindustan Times, an NGO, Shakti Vahini, had received the information about the girl’s trafficking in April but they were not able to locate her. It was on Monday that Kolkata Police informed Shakti Vahini that she was admitted at uru Teg Bahadur Hospital.

“The girl lies in a critical state, unable to make use of her lower limbs. The victim has reported about sexual abuse and multiple sexual assaults over the last six months. She has also reported about her being used in prostitution rackets,” the daily quoted president of Shakti Vahini, Ravi Kant, as saying.

The NGO has helped police identify the main accused who first lured the girl out of Kolkata and pushed her into a prostitution racket. The main is a history sheeter of the area and has been arrested by the police.

A team of Kolkata Police is on its way to Delhi to record the victim’s statement and take her back to Kolkata for further action in the case.

(Agencies)