Sexual Assault  

Bollywood has largely been silent about the sexual assault allegation against filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani and actor Richa Chadha believes that is because they are not aware of the facts of the case.
 

The alleged sexual assault by Bishop Franco Mulakkal has had the entire nation up in metaphorical arms, but notwithstanding the widespread condemnation of it, the Church has brazened it out by backing the reported perpetrator of the heinous crime

In the HuffPost India article, Hirani's lawyer Anand Desai called the allegations "false, mischievous, scandalous, motivated and defamatory".

Defense attorney James Amberg asked for a prison sentence of less than 10 years. He said the conviction will bring “severe and lifelong consequences” to Ramamoorthy and his wife when they return to southern India.

Prosecutors asked for a sentence of nearly 11 years, but US District Judge Terrence Berg settled on a nine-year term. He said he hoped it would be "grave enough" to deter others from committing similar crimes. A jury convicted Prabhu Ramamoorthy in August. He will be deported to India after serving his sentence

A man attempted to sexually assault his daughter under the influence of drugs and alcohol in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district

Reports say that highly influential people including politicians are among those who sexually abused the girl. Cases have been registered under POSCO act.

 

Ammunition was found at the house of Bihar's former social welfare minister Manju Verma, accused in the  Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual assault case. The police are saying she is missing since one month and Supreme Court has expressed shock over the same.

 

There has been an unnerving increase in the number of incidents of sexual assault against children in Kerala, cases registered under the POCSO Act in the last eight months show