Rajasthan

Jaipur, Sep 15 (PTI) A 45-year-old Australian citizen was found dead at a guest house in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district, police said on Sunday.

The guest house staff found Nocolas's body on Saturday and informed police. The body was then taken to a hospital, said Kiran Kang, Jaisalmer's Superintendent of Police.

He had checked into the guest house on Thursday, police said.

The Australian high commission in New Delhi has been informed about the incident.

Officials said the cause of the death will be known only after postmortem.

Jaipur, Sep 10 (PTI) A man in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district got himself murdered so that his family members could claim Rs 50 lakh insurance he had bought and spend the rest of their life in comfort.

Balbir Kharol (38), a money lender, took the bizarre decision not because he was debt-ridden, but because he failed to recover money from people who had taken loans from him, according to police.

Jaipur, Sep 10 (PTI) A 15-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by three men in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district, police said on Tuesday.

The girl, along with her friend, was going to a temple on Monday evening when the three accused, who were consuming alcohol liquor at a roadside, allegedly attacked them and forcibly took them to an isolated place, they said.

The men allegedly raped one of the girls while the other managed to escape and rushed to her home, police said.

Kota (Rajasthan), Sep 6 (PTI) A 30-year-old woman has alleged that she was raped by five people, including a neighbour of her, in Jhalawar district of Rajasthan, police said on Thursday.

The woman approached the police on Wednesday accompanied by her husband and complained that when she was grazing cattle in a field on Tuesday afternoon, her neighbour forcibly took her to a nearby forest and raped her, SHO of Gangdhar police station said.

Jodhpur, Aug 26 (PTI) In a blow to godman Asaram Bapu, a divison bench of the Rajasthan High Court here on Monday turned down his plea for an early hearing against his conviction in a sexual assault case.

The godman was convicted in the case in March 2018 and was sentenced to life in jail.

Refusing to give him the relief, the bench of Justice Abhay Chaturvedi and Justice Sandeep said his appeal would taken up in "an appropriate order of priority as per the custodial period suffered by the accused".

Jaipur, Aug 14 (PTI) An Alwar court on Wednesday acquitted all six accused in the lynching of Pehlu Khan, killed two years ago by a mob that set upon him while he was transporting cows.

The Additional Judicial Magistrate acquitted the six men, giving them benefit of the doubt, according to a lawyer.

Pehlu Khan (55), his two sons and a few others were transporting cows when they were allegedly stopped and thrashed by a mob near Behror in Alwar district on April 1, 2017.

Jaipur, Aug 11 (PTI) A man was booked for allegedly raping a 30-year-old married woman and threatening to circulate her video on the Internet, police said here on Sunday.

A case was registered against Sanjay Sahu on Saturday after the woman filed a plea in the court, said Raghuveer Singh, a constable at the Kho-Nagorian police station.

He said the case was registered under IPC Sections 354 (molestation), 376 (rape), 384 (extortion) and 509 (outraging women modesty).

Investigation into the case is on.

Jaipur, Aug 9 (PTI) A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a minor boy in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan on Friday, police said.

The accused, who lives in the girl's neighbourhood, has been detained, they said.

"The accused took the girl to his shop on the pretext of teaching her English alphabet. After sometime, he took her to a deserted place nearby and allegedly raped her," the police said.

The girl has been admitted to a local hospital, they said.

Kota, Aug 9 (PTI) A man allegedly raped a 70-year-old woman while she was guarding her fields in Rajasthan's Bundi district, police said on Friday.

The incident took place on Tuesday evening and the accused, Gyan Singh Meena (40), who is a resident of Dei town of Bundi, was arrested on Wednesday, they said.

The woman's statement was recorded before a magistrate under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC)under section 164 on Friday.

Sikar, Aug 6 (PTI) A Rajasthan court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 20-year rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl, but criticised police for failing to arrest the main accused in the six-year-old case.

Special POCSO court Judge Seema Agarwal asked Jaipur-range Inspector General of Police and Sikar SP to inform the court about the progress made to arrest Pradeep Jat, the main accused, in the case.

She directed the SP to constitute a special team to arrest him, public prosecutor Shivratan Sharma said.