Krishnagiri district administration has invited applications from individuals or organisations to serve as support persons for survivors of sexual violence under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The Delhi High Court allowed a 15-year-old rape survivor to terminate her 30-week pregnancy, holding that compelling a survivor of sexual assault to continue such a pregnancy impairs her right to live…
The Telangana High Court has expressed serious concern over a possible large-scale infant trafficking network in the state and the police's failure to trace the biological parents of trafficked babies. A division…
A 15-year-old girl who ran away from her home in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and was rescued at Kashmere Gate in Delhi was allegedly made to wait nearly seven hours as police officers…
Parents hoping to adopt children orphaned by the Wayanad landslide face a long wait and cannot choose the Wayanad children specifically, The Hindu reports. The five children believed to have lost both…
Mumbai police arrested two friends, aged 20 and 21, for allegedly spiking a 16-year-old girl’s drink with cannabis and then raping her, while a third minor accused recorded the incident and circulated…
