Under the Mohammedan Law, the court noted that, a girl who has attained the age of puberty could marry without the consent of her parents a...

The central agency registered 23 separate cases on November 14 against 83 people allegedly involved in online child sexual abuse and exploi...

Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Kulshreshtha sentenced Thakur to life imprisonment for remainder of his natural life.

CBI said 34 girls at the Muzzafarpur shelter home aged between seven to seventeen years of age were sexually abused by the accused after th...

The child rights body will begin with these hearings in the 115 aspirational districts identified by the Niti Ayog.

The women and child development ministry had come up with the guidelines drafted by the NGO Childline in 2013 before the Juvenile Justice (...

The bench was dealing with the matter in which 34 girls were allegedly raped and sexually abused in a shelter home run by an NGO at Muzaffa...

TISS which had conducted the social audit had found that sexual abuse of varying forms and degree of intensity was prevalent in almost all ...

The bench comprising justices S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta, asked Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand, who was appearing for the Ce...

The child shelter authorities could be penalised if the CCTV network is found to be compromised or deliberately shut down, as per the gover...

The issue of sexual abuse of minor girls first made headlines in April after the TISS submitted its audit report of shelter homes in Bihar ...

This despite the NCPCR and the ministry of women and child development writing to the states to comply with the SC’s orders.

The three women members of the team interacted at length with many of the nearly three dozen girls against whom sexual assault has been pro...

The charges relate to mental, physical and sexual exploitation of girl children residing at Children home at Sahu Road, Muzzafarpur (Bihar).

"We will start an exercise with the help of NGOs as a part of which we will go to schools and make students aware about good and bad touch,...

Criticising Sushil Modi for comments on Advani, JD(U) Bihar unit President Bashist Narayan Singh said "do anybody isolate father-mother fro...

Patna High Court has directed the NDA government in Bihar to initiate steps to enforce the Domestic Violence Act, 2005.