On May 21, 2012 Mid-Day reported that says 40- year- old man, who was arrested for sexually abusing and threatening the teenager for three years since 2009, a 40-year-old man had allegedly been threatening his eldest daughter into indulging him sexually at their house in Malwani in Malad (West). Harishankar Patwa, who was arrested yesterday, was remorseless even after locals blackened his face, beat him up and paraded him in the locality before turning him in.

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On May 18, 2012 The Pioneer reported that Delhi Police on Thursday arrested a 30-year-old doctor for allegedly raping a 28-year-old girl in Mayur Vihar Phase-I area of East Delhi. The accused, Pradeep Kumar Bharti works with a private Hospital in East Delhi. Police said that the doctor had gone to the girl's house for treatment.

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On May 17, 2012 Times of India reported that a 39-year-old paediatric cardiologist working at a hospital in Mogappair was arrested on charges of rape on Tuesday night. Police said Dr C Yogesh, a native of Maharashtra, began an affair with Dr Preethi, an anaesthetist, four months ago with a promise of marriage. He also told her that he had filed a petition in the family court to dissolve his first marriage.

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On May 16, 2012 The Pioneer reported that twenty days after a nude and highly decomposed body of a woman was found from the premises of Lok Nayak hospital in central Delhi, police have identified four persons in connection with murdering the woman. Three of them have been arrested on Tuesday, while one was still absconding. The identity of the woman is still not established.

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On May 16, 2012 Mid-Day reported that a 16-year-old deaf and dumb girl was gangraped by three men at knifepoint in Bhandup on Monday afternoon. All three of them were later arrested. According to the Bhandup police, the victim is a Std VIII student and lived with her family at Jamil Nagar, Bhandup (West). The incident occurred when the teen was playing outside her house. The three accused – Kallu Sureshchandra Jaiswal alias Shivkumar (23) and two other 16-year-olds – forcefully escorted the girl to Jaiswal’s home nearby and then raped her one by one at knifepoint.

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On May 15, 2012 Times of India reported that police arrested three auto drivers who allegedly gangraped a 19-year-old woman in an abandoned building at Khairatabad on May 10. Abdul Sami, 23, Hameed bin Saleem, 23, both from AC Guards, and Mohammed Moinuddin, 22, of Suleiman Nagar in Chintalmet were taken into custody. The victim, a 19-year-old housewife from Karimnagar, came to the city after an altercation with her husband the previous night.

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On May 09, 2012 Mid-Day reported that the accused was nabbed in the act by the 14-year-old girl’s relatives and neighbours; has been sent to judicial custody when their 14-year-old daughter didn’t return two hours after leaving for the local temple on Monday evening, Vakola residents Mahesh and Suhasini Mane ( names changed) got worried.

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On May 09, 2012 Times of India reported that the Hinjewadi police on Monday arrested a 25-year-old brick kiln labourer for allegedly raping an eight-year-old daughter of another labourer. The incident took place in Punawale on Sunday evening. He also tried to kill the girl by throwing her into a well, but she, somehow, managed to come out of the well, which was mostly dry, after two hours, and told about the incident to her parents.

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On May 02, 2012 Mid-Day reported that the accused forced themselves into her house on Monday night, assaulted her husband, and took turns violating her; the victim had been complaining of vulgar remarks from the three youths, who would even watch her bathe hours before a 21- year- old woman could act on her resolve to report to the police against sexual harassment from three local youths, the trio barged into her house, and allegedly assaulted and gangraped her.

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On April 30, 2012 Times of India reported that two women were allegedly gangraped by a computer training institute owner and three of his friends in the late hours of Saturday at knife point. The heinous crime came to light on Sunday night following a complaint by the victims.

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