State vs Unnamed Accused — Tinder relationship rape case (quashed)

A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped and murdered in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh in September 2020. The CBI filed a chargesheet in December 2020 against four accused persons. In March 2023, an SC/ST court acquitted three of the four accused; one was convicted of culpable homicide, and gang-rape charges were dropped against all accused.

A case involving the placement of a vibrating machine on a victim's vaginal opening was heard by the Kerala High Court. The court held that such conduct constitutes penetrative sexual assault equivalent to rape under the POCSO Act.

Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal was accused of rape, sexual harassment, wrongful confinement and assault of a woman journalist at a Goa resort in November 2013. After initial acquittal in 2021, the Bombay High Court's Goa bench convicted him in 2026 following final arguments on the chargesheet filed by Goa Police in February 2014.

A junior doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata was raped and murdered on 9 August 2024. The case sparked nationwide outrage and protests. A man was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment; a fresh FIR and multi-agency probe involving CBI have been initiated into additional aspects of the case.

Mukesh Singh and four others were convicted for the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in Delhi on December 16, 2012. The case drew nationwide outrage and resulted in death sentences for the four convicts (Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, and Akshay Kumar Singh), who were executed in February 2015. A fifth man and one juvenile were also involved in the crime.

A 26-year-old woman alleged that two police constables raped her during a night patrol near Tiruvannamalai in September 2025. The woman approached the Madras High Court seeking expeditious progress in her trial. The high court issued directions to speed up rape and POCSO trials in response.