A GROWING EPIDEMIC
India has seen a sudden spurt in the number of rape cases involving minors. It isn’t clear whether this is because of more cases being reported. The government recently passed an executive order that mandates the death sentence for rapes of girls under th
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 gang-
raped 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 girl is raped and murdered in Etah on April 16 by a 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-yearold 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