The Kathua rape case involved the abduction, gang rape, and murder of an 8-year-old Bakarwal girl, Asifa Bano, by seven males (six men and a juvenile) in January 2018 in the Rasana village of the Hiranagar tehsil of Kathua district, in the Jammu...
The Unnao rape case refers to the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl on 4 June 2017 in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, India. On 16 December 2019, former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar was convicted of the rape and on 20 December 2019 he was sentenced to life...
Nidhi Razdan (born 11 April 1977) is an Indian journalist and television personality. She was the executive editor of NDTV and the primary anchor of NDTV 24x7 news debate show Left, Right & Centre, and the weekly debate show The Big Fight. Since...
The Nadia nun rape case was a crime in Ranaghat, Nadia district, West Bengal, in March 2015. A 71-year-old Syro-Malankara Catholic nun was gang raped by eight men who robbed a Catholic missionary school. Before the attack, school officials had told...
Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. According to the 2021 annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 31,677 rape cases were registered across the country, or an average of 86 cases daily, a rise from 2020...
In scholarly literature and criminology, gang rape, also called serial gang rape, party rape, group rape, or multiple perpetrator rape, is the rape of a single victim by two or more violators. Gang rapes are forged on shared identity, religion,...
The 2014 Birbhum gang rape case was the gang rape of a 20-year-old girl on 21 January 2014 in Birbhum district of West Bengal on the orders of a local so-called arbitration body. The 20-year-old girl from Subolpur village was gang-raped by a group...
Mass sexual assault is the collective sexual assault of adults and sometimes children, in public by groups. Typically acting under the protective cover of large gatherings, victims have reported being groped, stripped, beaten, bitten, penetrated and...
Kuldeep Singh Sengar is an Indian politician and former member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, serving Bharatiya Janata Party, formerly belonging to the Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party and Congress from Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh...