A five-year-old boy was thrown into a well to death allegedly by his step-grandmother to avenge humiliation committed by the victim's parents in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district, police said.
A 19-year-old woman was allegedly beaten up, her hair chopped off, and then paraded on the orders of village panchayat members in Jharkhand's Palamu district, after she reportedly refused to get married, police said on Monday.
A 10-year-old girl was murdered after a suspected gang-rape, police said on Saturday. The body was found earlier in the day, in the backyard of her house in a semi-naked state in Jharkhand's Latehar district.