sex crime charges

Few Cases Filed Under Act End In Successful Convictions; Govt Mulls Intensification Of Action Against Illegal Sex Determination

Two men have been arrested in Bengaluru for sexually abusing two minor girls, recording the acts, and uploading them online for profit. The arrests followed an alert from the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal.

Bhubaneswar police registered a murder case for the death of a railway constable, not invoking the new 'mob lynching' provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Officers stated the family's complaint lacked the specific motives required for the mob lynching section. The crime branch may invoke the provision later if evidence supports it.

A former JPMorgan banker of Nepalese descent alleged that a senior executive coerced him into “non-consensual and humiliating sex acts" while threatening his career and subjecting him to racial abuse. According to a WSJ report, the bank unsuccessfully tried settling the case before the lawsuit was filed

Singer D4vd pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge in the death of a 14-year-old girl who was last known to be alive nearly a year ago and whose dismembered and decomposed body was found in September in his apparently abandoned Tesla. The charges revealed key details and were among the first concrete public moves made in a grisly and horrific case that had been under a largely secret investigation in the seven months since the body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found.

A man has been arrested for allegedly drowning his pregnant wife and two daughters in a swimming pool after discovering the unborn child was female. He reportedly intended to marry a minor to father a male heir. Police also arrested ten others for facilitating an illegal prenatal sex determination test.

A tip-off about a Hindu woman observing Ramzan fasts at a TCS Nashik BPO unit triggered a police investigation. Undercover operations led to arrests of seven employees amid allegations of sexual exploitation, religious coercion, and workplace harassment. TCS has suspended employees and launched an internal probe.

Goa police's crime branch has identified five survivors in a Curchorem sex scandal case, registering three FIRs against 20-year-old Soham Naik. Investigations reveal the accused befriended victims and exploited them, with both parties reportedly minors at the time of the incidents.