Malaysia's sexual assault against children cases reached 1,389 in 2023, a significant increase of 21.1 per cent as compared to the figures of the previous year, official data showed Friday.
Calcutta High Court, in a specially convened hearing on Sunday, has ordered a second post mortem of the body of the school girl who was alleged raped and murdered at Joynagar in South 24-Parganas.
Telangana Police have registered a case of sexual assault against folk singer Mallik Teja.
After a tribal housewife complained of sexual assault, a civic volunteer was arrested by the police in Ausgram in East Burdwan today.
In a circular dated June 27, 2024, issued by the state’s Health and Family Welfare Department, all medical practitioners were strictly prohibited from conducting the two-finger test. Disciplinary action would be taken against any medical personnel found violating this directive, the directive added.
Smugglers and traffickers in Libya — many of them members of militias — have long been notorious for brutalizing migrants. But rights groups and U.N. agencies say abuse also takes place in the official DCIM-run facilities.ap
Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, in a judgment passed on January 19, held that there must be ‘skin-to-skin contact with sexual intent’ for an act to be considered sexual assault.
A recent judgment by Lahore High Court which, extensively citing Indian judicial verdicts, has termed the so-called ‘virginity tests’ routinely conducted on survivors of rape or sexual assault a ‘blatant violation of the dignity of a woman’ and held them to be unconstitutional.
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