Indian child protection laws already prohibit an adult from having sex with someone below the age of An analysis of the most recent national census by the data journalism initiative India Spend estimated that nearly 12 million Indian children under the age of 10 were married. The majority were girls from poor, rural families with little or no education.

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In the first of its kind judgment in the region, a year-old juvenile was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment for a five-year-old girl's rape and murder in Panchkula in May last year. A five-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a year-old boy at her residence in Vellaturu village of G Konduru mandal in Krishna district on Monday. A minor boy was detained for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl on a on a vacant quarter in a meat plant. The incident took place in Alnoor meat plant compound under Sikheda police station area on Saturday. The body of a five-year-old girl was pulled out by rescuers nearly 18 hours after she fell into a feet-deep borewell at Harsinghpura village in Haryana's Karnal district, police said on Monday.
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A team of 13 doctors is said to be caring for the girl after she suffered serious injuries to the head, face, neck and chest in addition to the rape. The case comes days after Indian prime minister Narendra Modi issued an ordinance introducing the death penalty for child rapists. To become law, it will need to go before parliament within six months — but the punishment will be enforceable in the meantime. Violent crime against women has been rising in India despite tough legislation enacted in The government brought in laws doubling prison terms for rapists to 20 years and criminalising voyeurism, stalking and the trafficking of women. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Want to discuss real-world problems, be involved in the most engaging discussions and hear from the journalists? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium.
Jump to navigation. A year-old girl was allegedly repeatedly raped by a boy at a village in Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday. As per the complaint, the boy had been raping the girl since the last four months," an official of Mokhada police station said. When her parents took her for a medical checkup, doctors told them that she was pregnant. When her parents asked her, she told them what had happened.