Rajasthan

Jaipur, Dec 11 (PTI) A Sainik School teacher in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district was arrested for sodomising around a dozen students, police said on Wednesday.

Ravindra Singh Shekhawat was produced before the court on Tuesday and was sent to two-day police remand.

The arrest was made following a complaint lodged by school principal Major Abhilash Singh, DSP (SC/ST) Gyan Singh said.

Jaipur, Dec 10 (PTI) A 26-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped and killed in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district, police said on Tuesday.

The woman's body was found hanged from a tree at Roshiaka village in the district on Monday, after which a case was registered against six people, they said.

Jaipur, Dec 9 (PTI) Several theatres here stopped screening Ashutosh Gowariker's "Panipat" on Monday, amid criticism by Jat groups over the film's portrayal of Bharatpur's Maharaja Surajmal.

According to the management at some cinemas, the shows were cancelled followed instructions from the administration. The screenings will resume only after further orders, they said.

Sikar, Dec 6 (PTI) A local court on Friday awarded life sentence to a man for raping a four-year-old girl in Rajasthan's Sikar district.

Hansraj Balai, 25, was awarded life imprisonment till death by the POCSO court, public prosecutor Yashpal Singh said.

Kota, Dec 4 (PTI) A Rajasthan court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 on him for raping a 14-year-old girl two years ago.

The POCSO court in Kota on Tuesday also sent the man's accomplice to jail for three years and fined him Rs 10,000.

Jaipur, Dec 5 (PTI) A 19-year old girl was allegedly raped by a staffer of a hotel where she was undergoing training for hotel management course in Jaipur, police said on Thursday.

The victim, a resident of Mumbai, lodged an FIR with the Kho Nagorian police station on Wednesday alleging that the accused, Akshya, raped her near the hotel on Friday night.

Jaipur, Dec 1 (PTI) Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday claimed that that the graph of the BJP is going down because of its "negative thoughts".

Their thought is negative, not positive. Therefore they are being exposed gradually and will be more exposed, Gehlot told reporters here.

Their graph is going down. People will understand that they talk only such things which nationalists like. Who is not a nationalist? All are nationalists; but they want to create division on this count also, he said.

Jaipur, Dec 1 (PTI) A six-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Tonk district of Rajasthan, police said on Sunday.

The girl had gone to school on Saturday and did not return till late. Her family members started looking for her and found the body at an isolated place in Kheldi village of Aligarh town, police said.

Prima facie, the girl was raped and strangulated to death. The body has been shifted to the district hospital for postmortem, SHO of Aligarh Police Station, Ram Krishan, said.

He said efforts are on to identify and arrest the accused.

Kota, Nov 29 (PTI) A 15-year-old child bride was allegedly abducted and raped in Rajasthan's Bundi district by the man to whom she had been married off some years ago, police said.

The police rescued the girl on Thursday and were trying to trace the 20-year-old man and his companions.

Jaipur, Nov 29 (PTI) The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is acting like an extra-constitutional authority, alleged Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in a special assembly session here on Friday.

He dared the RSS to convert itself into a political party and come out in the open.

"The RSS is acting like an extra-constitutional authority in the country. It should convert itself into a political party and come out in the open," he said, claiming that no minister or chief minister could be appointed without its consent.