10 verified cases involving Abuse, newest first.
R Veeramani, a granite businessman and chairman of a company, and two associates were arrested in a POCSO case involving alleged sexual assault of a minor girl. The case was registered nearly 11 months before the arrest; investigators had previously sought to close the probe, but their bid was rejected.
A seven-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped, gang-raped, and murdered inside an under-construction mall in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar Extension. Two persons, including an 18-year-old labourer named Vinay, were arrested in connection with the crime. The victim's body was recovered from the basement/sub-basement of the building with multiple injury marks.
An FIR was registered against five women caregivers at a daycare centre operating inside Capgemini's HAL campus in Bengaluru following disturbing videos allegedly showing toddlers being physically abused. The alleged abuse included placing children in washing machines, spraying them with toilet jet spray, locking them in bathrooms, and threatening them.
A 65-year-old accused was convicted and awarded death penalty for rape and murder of a minor. The case gained attention for the speed of investigation and trial. Police collected evidence from multiple sources and coordinated with forensic experts. A comprehensive chargesheet of 1,200 pages was filed on May 16.
An accused was charged with the rape and murder of a 9-year-old child. Pune Rural police filed a 700-page chargesheet after a thorough investigation by a Special Investigation Team.
A case involving the suicide of a Bengaluru police officer's wife, where a death note and digital evidence raised allegations of abuse. The original chargesheet dropped the murder charge but retained other offences. The officer approached the Karnataka High Court in connection with the case.
An 11-year-old girl living with her family on a footpath at CDR Chowk in Mehrauli, Delhi was allegedly abducted around 5 a.m. while sleeping. The girl was raped and killed by a cab driver, Bashu Kumar Singh. Police arrested the accused following technical surveillance and CCTV analysis; during interrogation, the accused allegedly confessed to abducting, sexually assaulting, and strangling the minor.
A chargesheet was filed against several accused under various sections of the BNS, POCSO Act, Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, Juvenile Justice Act, and SC/ST Prevention Act in connection with a case involving a minor victim at a brothel. The Karnataka High Court granted bail to a brothel customer accused, noting that he could not be expected to know the age and caste of the victim.
Vishal was convicted of sexual assault under Section 8 of the POCSO Act. The conviction was based on witness testimony and documentary evidence after regular hearings.
An FIR was registered on December 7, 2016, against an unknown person for the rape of a 5-year-old girl under IPC Sections 363, 366A, 323, 376, 376(2)(i)(j) and POCSO Act Sections 3, 4, 5(m), 6. The accused Dhanraj was arrested in February 2017 and identified by the victim in a Test Identification Parade. The Supreme Court acquitted him, finding the identification procedure fatally flawed.