rape menace
India has seen a spurt in rape cases involving minors. HT maps a list of cases, including those from Kathua and Unnao, to highlight the seriousness of problem.
UTTAR PRADESH
A 12-year-old girl is raped after being held captive by a 22-year-old man in Sarojininagar area of Lucknow on April 19
STATUS: Police have registered a case of rape and Section 3/4 of POCSO Act and the accused has been arrested
A 14-year-old girl is raped in Ghazipur on April 4
STATUS: Police have registered a case. The accused has been arrested
A 17-year-old girl is raped by four men in Lalpur area of Varanasi on April 20 STATUS: A case under POCSO Act has been filed and three accused have been arrested
A 6-year-old girl is raped and murdered by her uncle in Allahabad on April 6. STATUS: The accused has been arrested and booked under POCSO Act.
The body of a 7-year-old missing girl is found 3km away from her house in Kaushambi on April 11. Post-mortem report suggests she was raped and strangled
STATUS: Two accused have been arrested after admitting they raped the girl. They have been booked under POCSO Act
A 10-year-old girl is drugged, confined to a room and raped in Bulandshahr on April 14
STATUS: A case of illegal confinement, rape and under the POCSO Act has been registered against the accused
A 14 year-old minor girl is abducted and gang-raped by three men in Hapur district on April 15 STATUS: A case of kidnapping and rape has been registered against two accused
A 15-year-old Dalit girl was gangraped by two men five months ago and forced to terminate her pregnancy in Meerut. A panchayat tries to hush up the case by reportedly offering ~3 lakh to the survivor’s family. STATUS : A case under the POCSO Act and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has been registered against the accused and two people have been arrested.
A 8-year-old girl is raped Bareilly on April 20 STATUS: A 35-year-old neighbour of the victim has been arrested
An 8-year-old girl is raped by a 14-year-old boy in CB Ganj on April 23 STATUS: The accused has been arrested and has been sent to a juvenile home
A 7-year-old in Etah girl on is April raped 16 and by a murdered 19-year-old man.
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
A 6-year-old is raped by her cousin in Kanpur on April 15. The accused is caught trying to strangle the girl
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
A 5-year-old girl in Agra city is raped on April 23 allegedly by a 13-year-old
STATUS: The accused is absconding
A 13-year-old girl is raped by a neighbour when she took her cattle for grazing in a field on April 12 STATUS: The accused has been booked and arrested
A 17-year-old is raped by the village head in Maharajganj on April 18. The accused escapes after threatening the survivor
STATUS: The accused has been arrested and arrested
ODISHA
A 17-year-old-girl in Cuttack district hangs herself to death after allegedly being raped by a 45-year-old man on March 8 STATUS: The accused has been arrested
A 4-year-old girl is raped by her 24-year-old neighbor on April 13 STATUS: Balasore police have arrested the accused
A 35-year-old man rapes an 8-year-old boy and later tries to kill him by hitting him with a brick on April 15
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
A man allegedly rapes his 10-year-old daughter under the influence of alcohol on April 16 STATUS: Probe has begun A Class 6 student is abducted and raped by her relative on April 17 STATUS: The accused has been arrested and booked
An 8-year-old girl is allegedly raped by her uncle on April 17
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
A 4-year-old girl is raped allegedly by a 14-year-old boy in Kendrapara district on April 20
STATUS: Probe has begun
A 7-year-old girl is molested in Kendrapara on April 20 STATUS: The accused has been arrested
■ A 6-year-old is raped and strangled by her 25-year-old neighbour in Cuttack on April 20. She is in a coma STATUS: The accused has been arrested
An district 8-year-old on April girl 21 is raped in Cuttack
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
A 7-year-old disabled girl is raped by a 28-year-old man on April 21
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
A 12-year-old girl is molested inside her house in Khuntuni on April 21
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
The headmaster of a school in Puri molests two students on April 23
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
A 5-year-old girl is raped by a neighbour in Sambalpur district on April 24 STATUS: The police are trying to ascertain whether the arrested accused is a minor ASSAM
A 12-year-old girl is raped and burnt alive allegedly by three people including two minors in Nagaon on March 23 STATUS: A charge sheet is likely to be filed by April-end. The two minors are in an observation home and the main accused is in judicial custody
A 10-year-old boy is raped by a security guard at an apartment complex in Guwahati on April 18 STATUS: The accused has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody
A 14-year-old girl is sexually assaulted in Dhubri district on April 18 STATUS: A 24-year-old accused has been arrested under Section 376 of IPC and other provisions of POCSO Act
■ A 7-year-old girl is raped by 55-year-old neighbor in Tinsukia district on April 21 STATUS: The accused has been arrested and sent to judicial remand for 14 days
A blind beggar is accused of raping his 10-year-old daughter over four months. The incident comes to light after some neighbours catch him in the act. A video of the accused being beaten up by villagers goes viral, prompting the police to intervene on April 22
STATUS: The police are looking for the accused. The girl has been handed over to her relatives
A 5-year-old girl is raped by a 45-year-old in Guwahati on April 24
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
JHARKHAND
A 12-year-old tribal girl is allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by three men in Dumka on April 22 STATUS: The girl has not been able to identify the accused. The Dumka SP has formed an SIT
MADHYA PRADESH
A 4-month-old girl is allegedly raped and murdered and her body is thrown in the basement of a multistorey building on April 21 STATUS: A 25-year-old man has been arrested after he was spotted on CCTV footage with the child
WEST BENGAL
Two Class 4 students are raped in a school allegedly by a teacher at least four times in two months STATUS: The police have begun investigations. No arrests have been made so far BIHAR
A 6-year-old is raped in Karaghar on April 10. The girl is found in an unconscious state with injury marks STATUS: The accused has been
arrested
A 14-year-old girl is allegedly gangraped, tortured and strangled to death on April 16 in Sugauli village near Motihari. The police recover the body, which has 52 injury marks STATUS: While the family alleges gang-rape, the police are still to confirm it
A 12-year-old disabled girl is gangraped by three minors 20km away from Patna on April 19
STATUS: Two minors have arrested; one accused is absconding
A 13- year-old commits suicide on April 20 after being alleged raped by her father in Champaran district STATUS: An FIR is lodged against the victim’s father on the basis of a statement by her mother
A 9-year-old girl is raped and killed in Muzaffarpur district on April 21. STATUS: The accused is arrested. He says he killed the girl after she tried to raise an alarm
HARYANA
A Class 2 student is raped by her uncle in Sonepat on April 6
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
A Class 10 girl is raped by the principal of her school on the promise of passing her in board examinations on March 13 in Sonepat
STATUS: The principal and two other women helpers at the school have been arrested
A 3-year-old girl is raped by her neighbor in Rohtak on February 19
STATUS: The accused has been arrested
On April 20, a 15-year-old girl is gang-raped by three people, including a minor, in sugarcane fields in Panipat district
STATUS: The four people have been arrested
A 15-year-old girl is abducted and allegedly gang-raped by five people in Yamunanagar district on April 18
STATUS: The accused have been arrested
PUNJAB
A 19-year-old boy rapes the 13-yearold daughter of his neighbour in Ludhiana on April 19
STATUS: The accused has been arrested and booked