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The Ruchika Girhotra case involves the molestation of 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra in 1990 by the Inspector General of Police Shambu (S.P.S. Rathore) in Haryana, India.. After she made a complaint, the victim, her family, and her friends were systematically harassed by the police leading to her eventual su
Goa Children's Act, 2003, [12] was the only specific piece of child abuse legislation before the 2012 Act. Child sexual abuse was prosecuted under the following sections of the Indian Penal Code: I.P.C. (1860) 375- Rape; I.P.C. (1860) 354- Outraging the modesty of a woman; I.P.C. (1860) 377- Unnatural offences
Rupan Deol Bajaj was at that time an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S) belonging to the Punjab Cadre. She filed a complaint against KPS Gill, saying that he had molested her modesty by patting her posterior during a party hosted on 18 July 1988 at the Chandigarh residence of then Punjab Financial Commissioner, S L Kapoor. [ 2 ]
The Muzaffarpur shelter case refers to a shelter home that ran under a non-governmental organization called "Sewa Sankalp Evam Vikas Samiti" at Muzaffarpur, Bihar, where cases of sexual abuse, rape and torture were reported. In a medical examination, sexual abuse of 34 out of 42 of the girls living at the shelter was confirmed.
India has 400 million children below the age of 18, and thousands of children go missing every year. The situation is similar in Bangladesh, which shares a long, porous border with India.
The case caused uproar in the national and local media right after the video was aired by News Live, going viral on YouTube [6] and provoking debates about the safety of women and human rights in India. [7] By 20 July 2012, 12 of the 22 accused were arrested. [8]
In an open letter written on 17 August 2017 to the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, the victim stated that, prior to the events of 11 June, she had been raped on 4 June at 8:00 p.m. in the house of Sengar, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from the Unnao constituency, and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
In August 2024, a male sweeper was alleged to have sexually abused two four-year-old girls at a prominent co-educational school in Badlapur, Maharashtra, India. The case has led to widespread protests and significant public outrage, particularly in the Thane district.