{"id":190911,"date":"2025-12-22T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=190911"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:41:02","slug":"indian-army-soldier-arrested-for-raping-woman-in-ranchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/12\/22\/indian-army-soldier-arrested-for-raping-woman-in-ranchi.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian army soldier arrested for raping woman in Ranchi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ranchi: An Indian Army soldier has been arrested for raping a woman on a train in Ranchi, Jharkhand state of India.<\/p>\n

According to Kashmir Media Service, the incident took place while the woman was waiting on a train.<\/p>\n

The soldier dragged her into a compartment and raped her. He has been identified as Ajit Singh, reportedly posted with the 42 Medium Regiment in Punjab.<\/p>\n

Local police have taken him into custody and opened an investigation into the case.<\/p>\n

The arrest comes alongside a series of other unrelated but serious criminal cases involving members and ex-members of the Indian armed forces.<\/p>\n

In a separate development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) detained an Indian Army officer, Lieutenant Colonel Deepak Kumar Sharma, along with Vinod Kumar, in connection with a bribery scheme.<\/p>\n

Lt Col Sharma is posted in India\u2019s Ministry of Defence, and a corruption case has also been registered against his wife, Colonel Kajal, who is likewise associated with the defence establishment..<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a former Indian soldier has been arrested near the Nepal border on suspicion of drug trafficking and illegal possession of explosives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ranchi: An Indian Army soldier has been arrested for raping a woman on a train in Ranchi, Jharkhand state of India. According to Kashmir Media Service, the incident took place while the woman was waiting on a train. The soldier dragged her into a compartment and raped her. He has been identified as Ajit Singh, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/12\/images-87585821142988046014.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190913,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190911\/revisions\/190913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}