Government employee arrested for rape of British citizen last year

June 7th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Security officials have arrested hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for leading street protests against the alleged rape and death of two women. According to sources, Geelani, along with Ayaj Akbar and Ghulam Nabi Sumji, were arrested late last night.

May 4th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Two more people have been arrested in Orissa for their alleged involvement in the gang rape of a nun during the communal violence in the state's Kandhamal district last year, police said Monday. 'We arrested two more people during the weekend.

April 11th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel have arrested an American citizen with seven live cartridges at the Sahar International Airport here. The arrested person, identified as Henry Hen, is a resident of Texas in United States.

March 28th, 2009 JALANDHAR - In a third shocking case of its kind in the country in the last two weeks, an NRI father was arrested by the Punjab police Saturday for allegedly raping his 13-year-old daughter. A medical examination has confirmed the rape of the minor who lives in a village in Phillaur town, 40 km from here.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Three men were arrested Thursday for raping a minor girl in the Uttam Nagar area of West Delhi Wednesday night. The 14-year-old girl, who worked as a maid, was taken to a vacant plot in the night by Sanjay, where he and two others, identified as Pradeep and Naresh, raped her.

February 16th, 2009 PANAJI - A state forest department employee has been arrested for the rape of a British national more than a year ago. The accused, Lawrence Dias, 26, a resident of Merces, who was arrested on Monday night, had allegedly raped a 32-year-old British woman Jan 11 last year, officials said.

February 7th, 2009 LONDON - Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager found murdered on a Goa beach last year, was sexually attacked by up to six men days before she died, a British paper Sunday quoted the police as saying. The Observer said Keeling sent an email to a Spanish friend two days before her death in February last year, revealing she went to a rave party where she took drugs, including MDMA, LSD and Ecstasy.

January 15th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A man wanted in cases of rape, attempt to murder and drug smuggling and who had escaped from police custody from a running train was arrested in Uttar Pradesh, the police said Friday. 'We arrested him from the Mohanlalganj locality in Lucknow,' police inspector Abhishek Sirohi said.

January 13th, 2009 NOIDA - Eight people were arrested here Wednesday for allegedly abducting and raping a Delhi University student earlier this month, police said. They were arrested from an under-construction building in Sector 63 after a tip-off, Superintendent of Police Ashok Tripathi said.

January 12th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - A businessman was arrested here after his personal secretary accused him of rape, police said Tuesday. 'We have arrested the accused Anurag Aggarwal and started our investigations.

January 11th, 2009 PANAJI - The Goa police Monday dropped charges against Warren Alemao, nephew of two cabinet ministers in the Goa government, while filing their chargesheet in the sensational rape of a German minor girl last year. The police have named only Rohit Monserrate, son of Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate, in the chargesheet accusing him of rape and obscenity.

January 10th, 2009 NOIDA - One more suspect was arrested Sunday for the gang rape of a management student in Noida that stunned residents of the Indian capital and surrounding areas earlier this week, the police said. Pushpendra alias Tunia was arrested from his hideout in Garhi Chaukhandi village, the police said.

January 9th, 2009 NOIDA - Two more suspects have been arrested for the gang rape of an MBA student in Noida by 10 men that shocked residents of the Indian capital and surrounding areas earlier this week, police said Saturday. The two teenagers were arrested Friday night during searches conducted on their houses, according to the police.

January 8th, 2009 NOIDA - The Samajwadi Party activists Friday protested the arrest of seven men from a village in Noida for the alleged rape of a management student earlier this week, saying that while justice should be done, 'no innocent should be booked'. Samajwadi Party workers blocked the DND Expressway, bringing the traffic to a halt for nearly 30 minutes.

January 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A rapist is most likely to be an acquaintance living in the neighbourhood. According to the annual crime report of the Delhi Police, 98 percent of rape victims in the capital knew the accused.