"55 Year Old Man Arrested For Raping Mentally Challenged Girl"

The police have arrested a 55-year-old man on charges of raping a 21-year-old mentally challenged girl here yesterday.

According to the police the girl, was his neighbour, and the accused, identified as Varghese, committed the heinous crime on September 27, after which he absconded. He was later arrested by the police following a tip off from the P.P.M junction at Kaliackavila.

Varghese has been arrested and has been remanded to judicial custody. A case has been registered under section 376 of the IPC.

"Youth Convicted For Rape"

A city court has sentenced a 20-year-old youth in connection with the rape of a minor girl here yesterday.

According to the police the accused, identified, as Abulla was found guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl in K.G. Halli in 1998. He had reportedly sneaked into her house and gagged her before raping her. He had even allegedly threatened to kill her if she spoke about this ghastly incident with anyone.

He was sentenced to 10 years RI and was also asked to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000.

"(Young) Adults' Nude Pictures On The Net"

Mumbai police Crime Branch arrested a Belgium national on Sunday for allegedly clicking nude photos of children and posting them on the Internet. The operation was carried out by the Crime Branch Unit 9 of Bandra.

A holiday metropolitan magistrate has remanded Weldela Noro Gayton, the accused, to two day's police custody.

According to the police, Gayton used to lure poor street and slum children with money and chocolates and promises of giving them modelling assignments and then take them to his 11th floor rented office-cum-residence. There he used to make them strip and after clicking their nude pictures he used to upload them on the Internet. He was staying in the Pacific Building in Andheri (West).

The police has seized Gayton's passport, a camera, a laptop and a memory chip. The police has found strong evidence from the memory chip.

Now the police is trying to find out whether any of the children were sexually assualted or indulged in sex trafficking. They are also trying to find out whether he worked alone or was a part of any gang.

"Double Trouble For The Award-Winning Doctor"

Just a day after cosmetic surgeon Dr. Vijay Sharma was arrested and later released on bail for allegedly molesting a television reporter, who had gone to his clinic for a story on cosmetic surgery, another woman came forward with a molestation complaint against him.

After this complaint Sharma, was re-arrested. According to the complainant’s husband a year ago the complainant got silicon breast implants and liposuction surgeries done by Sharma. Then when she would go back to Sharma, after she developed some complications on six or seven occasions Sharma kissed her and took her to the bathroom and stripped her, complainant alleged.

Sharma was earlier arrested on Saturday after a TV journalist accused him of molested. He was charged under sections 354 and 506 (2) of the Indian Penal Code for outraging modesty and criminal intimidation with threat of death respectively.

Sharma has been a surgeon since 1987 and is mentioned in he Limca Book of Records for having conducted the most number of plastic surgeries in India. He also received best Asian cosmetic surgeon award at the hands of Michael Jackson.

"CID To Investigate The Akola Sex Racket Case"

The much talked about sex racket case, that has swayed Akola, has been taken over by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday.

The racket came to light when an 18-year-old woman alleged that she had been forced to offer sexual favours to a lot of government officials and businessmen, including the Akola district police chief Deepak Pandey.

However, the woman later withdrew allegations against Pandey, an IPS officer, who has been involved in other controversies in the past. Later still, she said that she had indeed been taken to Pandey by the racket kingpin Nitu Takwat but was excused as she was unwell and another woman had been arranged to offer sexual favours to Pandey.

According to the police sources, the Home Department had asked Pandey to proceed on leave to make sure that his presence did not hamper the inquiry.

Pandey denied all the charges and said that he knew about the racket a month ago and had also ordered an inquiry.

In 2004 the then aide-de-camp to the governor was charged with misbehaving with a traffic constable, making him stand in the scorching heat on the Raj Bhavan and threatening to transfer him. In November 2004, Pandey was suspended after his wife Dr. Nidhi Pandey, an IAS official, alleged physical torture and demands for dowry from her husband.