The mortal remains were flown to the capital in a special aircraft of Air India and after landing at the Indira Gandhi International airport, the plane was taken to its technical area where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi were present to receive the body
The Supreme Court lawyer Dayan Krishnan has been appointed as the special public prosecutor by the city police to conduct trial in the December 16 gangrape of a paramedical student who succumbed to injuries during the wee hours on Saturday at a Singapore hospital.
The 28-year-old male friend of the girl, who was brutally gang-raped in a moving bus, on Tuesday appeared before a fast track court in New Delhi to testify about the incident to which he is the sole eyewitness.
The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine the constitutional validity of the provision giving the definition of juvenile in the Juvenile Justice Act, which treats a person as a minor till he attains the age of 18 years.
A juvenile court on Monday ruled that a suspect in the fatal gang-rape of a young woman in New Delhi last month was a juvenile at the time of the attack, and may get off with a light sentence may have drawn sharp criticisms from all quarters, but child rights activists and defence counselors argue that the changing the law is not the answer. Priyanka reports.
The death row convicts moved a Delhi court with a plea to adjourn the execution 'sine die' saying they are yet to avail their remaining legal remedies.
The hearing of the December 16, 2012 gang-rape-cum-murder case of a 23-year-old medical student will be held in a fast track court from Monday.
The ban on media reporting on the proceedings of a local court in the Delhi gang-rape case reached the high court on Friday, with some journalists seeking permission for publishing the trial.
The 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim's devastated father says he wants the world to know his daughter's real name as it will give courage to other women who have survived such attacks, a week after the braveheart succumbed to her gruesome injuries.
The Delhi Police is likely to file the chargesheet in the gangrape-cum-murder case of a 23-year-old girl in court here tomorrow and will seek death penalty for the accused during the trial.
The Delhi government on Monday announced financial aid of Rs 15 lakh for the next of the kin of the 23-year-old gangrape victim and offered a job to a family member of the girl, who died two days ago.
Top BJP leaders, including Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj, will offer tribute to the 23-year-old brave heart who died after battling for life for 13 days after being brutally gang-raped by six men in a moving bus.
The police have failed to instill confidence, the judiciary has failed to deliver timely justice, the politician has failed to lead the way, feels Renu Mittal
Delhi Police will invoke murder charges against the six men allegedly involved in the gangrape and brutal assault of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus after she died in a Singapore hospital 13 days after treatment.
He was later taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where his condition is stated to be stable.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought response from the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case on the Centre's appeal challenging the Delhi high court verdict which dismissed its plea against stay on their execution.
Six states and UTs -- Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tripura and Daman & Diu -- have not spent a single rupee from the fund allocated by the Centre, according to data shared by the minister in Parliament in response to a question.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana said the death sentence cannot be executed pending disposal of mercy petition of convict Pawan Kumar Gupta.
The top court rejected the contention of Sharma that he is mentally ill and said his medical report suggests he is stable.
Hours after the clemency plea of Vinay Kumar Sharma, 26, was dismissed by the President, Akshay Thakur, 31, a third death row convict, filed a mercy petition.
Amar Singh built an extensive network for the party, and was often spotted with celebrities, from the Bachchans to Anil Ambani to Subrata Roy.
The parents of the December 16 Delhi gang rape victim on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A Delhi court on Friday issued fresh death warrants for February 1, 6 am against the four convicts. Earlier in the day, President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected Mukesh's mercy plea.
A fast track court will pronounce on September 10 its verdict in the December 16 gang-rape case in which four adult accused were tried for brutal rape and murder of 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in south Delhi.
"She would have turned 28 on May 10 if she had lived. Today's verdict is a gift for her," Singh said.
Sharma, one of the four convicts on death row in the 2012 case, has also sought commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment claiming that he has "developed mental illness" inside the prison due to the alleged "torture and ill-treatment".
Nirbhaya's parents and the Delhi government had moved the court on Tuesday seeking fresh death warrants for the four convicts after the Supreme Court granted liberty to the authorities to approach the trial court for issuance of fresh date for the execution of these convicts.
The bench said all relevant material including judgments pronounced by trial court, high court and Supreme Court were placed before the President when he was considering the mercy plea of convict Mukesh Kumar Singh.
As the last-ditch attempt, Mukesh through his counsel on Tuesday sought an urgent hearing on his plea against dismissal of the mercy plea before the top court.
The Centre has put the blame on state governments while state governments complain that money is not released for the proposals given by them to the Empowered Committee that has been tasked with recommending proposals to be funded under this framework.
In a disturbing reminder of the December 16, 2012, gang-rape in Delhi, a woman was allegedly raped in a moving local bus in Bhopal after she had boarded it late last night, police said on Thursday.
The date of execution, first fixed for January 22, was postponed for 6 am on February 1 by a January 17 court order.
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Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) were executed at 5.30 am for the savage assault in an empty moving bus on the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who came to be known the world over as Nirbhaya.
The fourth convict, Pawan Gupta, has not filed a curative petition, which he still can if he chooses.
The Supreme Court on Friday appointed two amicus curiae on appeals of four condemned convicts in the December 16 gang-rape and murder case against the Delhi high court order upholding their death sentence.
Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi said even the court understands that the convicts are filing pleas one after the other just to delay the hanging.
This is the fourth death warrant issued for the execution of the convicts in the matter.
The Karnataka government has decided to reimburse the medical bill to the tune of Rs 1.16 crore incurred on Housing Minister Ambareesh for his treatment, triggering a controversy over spending taxpayers' money.
The Supreme Court today directed the Delhi police to place before it the dying declaration of the December 16 gang rape victim along with other trial court records of the case in which four convicts were awarded death sentence.
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