Rape is often termed as a purely 'sexually driven' crime, research, however, has proved that psychological and societal factors lead to rape.
A watchman who was set ablaze on December 7 in Secunderabad succumbed to his injuries on Saturday.
Facing religious persecution in Myanmar, lakhs of Rohingya Muslims had fled the country. Hyderabad in Telangana is at present home to about 6,000 of them.
A Division Bench of the Telangana High Court has asked the state government to preserve the bodies of the four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinarian until further instructions.
The 34-year-old man entered the room of his mother-in-law on the night of November 13 and allegedly sexually assaulted her while she was sleeping, they said based on the complaint filed by the woman on Friday.
An 18-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an autorickshaw driver under Chandrayangutta Police Station limit of Hyderabad.
On Friday, the Telangana Police arrested a government school teacher after three girl students accused him of sexually harassing them.
On September 23, 2014, the Supreme Court had issued a set of 16 guidelines to be followed in case of police encounters.
The Telangana high court, which was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed by a group of rights’ activists, directed that the state government take steps to preserve the bodies of the four men – Mohammad Arif, Jollu Naveen, Jollu Shiva and Chintakunta Chenna Kesavulu – till further orders from the Supreme Court.
The girl and her 10-year-old sibling had reportedly lost their way back home when the autorickshaw driver offered to help the two. The accused later took the two to a lodge in Nampally area of the city and raped the girl.
Two months after a top official warned the government about high levels of uranium in the groundwater in Lambapur-Peddagattu area of Telangana's Nalgonda district, the Jal Shakti ministry has confirmed it.
India News: The Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly on Friday passed a Bill to further amend the Indian Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure that will en
The Disha Bill has been drafted with the single thought of providing for harsher punishments, including death sentence, to those found guilty of committing heinous crimes against women like rape.
Speaking in the Lok Sabha today, Union minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani asked what message was Rahul Gandhi giving to the country.
The bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde appointed former Bombay High Court judge Justice Rekha S Baldota and former CBI Director D R Karthikeyan as other members.
India News: The Supreme Court on Thursday set up a three-member inquiry commission headed by retired top court judge V S Sirpurkar to find the truth behind the al
A day earlier, 16 migrant labourers were rescued from the Kantabanji railway station in the same district.
On Thursday, a bench of the SC ordered a judicial inquiry into the deaths of four men accused of gang-rape and murder who died during a stated exchange of gunfire with Telangana police on December 6.
A three-member team judicial inquiry has been ordered into the Telangana encounter. No other court or authority shall inquire, the apex court said.
The Supreme Court has ordered an independent commission to inquire into the killing of the four men accused of the rape and murder of a 26-year-old woman in Telangana last week