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Juvenile mom gets 5 years jail

PTI | Feb 8, 2013, 03.02AM IST NEW DELHI: Mother of a juvenile, accused of raping, sodomizing and murdering a three-year-old child, has been sentenced to five years in jail by a Delhi court for destroying evidence against her son. Additional sessions judge Rajeev Bansal handed out the sentence to Sunita ..... Read More

17-year-old girl gang-raped in Delhi

PTI | Jan 29, 2013, 05.52PM IST NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old housemaid was allegedly drugged and gang-raped by two drunken men at their rented accommodation in JamiaNagar when she had gone there to meet her friend, police said on Tuesday. The girl, who works as a maid, went to the house to meet ..... Read More

Child labour: HC summons senior cop, government official

TNN | Jan 25, 2013, 04.46AM IST NEW DELHI: Annoyed with the failure of authorities to curb child labour and bring in a law to regulate placement agencies in the city, the Delhi high court on Thursday summoned joint commissioner of police and the labour commissioner of the Delhi government. A ..... Read More

Rise in sex crimes against minors

TNN | Jan 25, 2013, 04.39AM IST NEW DELHI: The 16-year-old boy, sexually abused in a south Delhi school, reported it and filed a case. Children generally take time to get to this stage. Psychiatrists and counsellors say most kids report only after a "long relationship". Small children, especially, take time to ..... Read More