40 years after rape, SC confirms verdict, says injury to private parts not must for conviction | India News

40 years after rape, SC confirms verdict, says injury to private parts not must for conviction | India News

NEW DELHI: In an over 40-year-old incident of sexual assault of a schoolgirl by her tuition teacher, Supreme Court has confirmed his guilt and sentence while ruling that courts can record conviction even in absence of injury to the prosecutrix’s private parts, when other evidence corroborates rape.The accused had argued that rape charges could not … Read more

Kolkata man gets death for 7-month-old’s rape | India News

Kolkata man gets death for 7-month-old’s rape | India News

KOLKATA: A Pocso court in Kolkata on Tuesday sentenced a 34-year-old man to death for raping a seven-month-old infant on Nov 30 last year and leaving her fighting for life, terming the case “rarest of rare”.“There cannot be any other punishment that the court can think of,” judge Indrila Mukherjee Mitra said in her verdict … Read more