Sustained protests over the gangrape of a young girl erupted in Raisina Hill, the seat of power, as thousands of youth clashed with police undeterred by the repeated use of water cannons, teargas shells and baton charge.
Leslee Udwin has called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "deal with the unceremonious silencing of the film".
The child studying at the Modern High School was allegedly raped on November 11 when the institution celebrated the Children's Day, Gulf News reported, adding that the parents notified police on January 9.
An accused in the paramedical student gangrape case, who had been identified during a test identification parade, was on Tuesday remanded in 12 days judicial custody by a Delhi court while another will undergo TIP on Wednesday.
Nine accused in the Suriyanelli gangrape case on Wednesday moved the Kerala high court for bail. The accused, who had been sentenced by the sessions court, are among the 35 acquitted by a division bench of the high xourt in 2005.
Meira Paibis, a collective of Meitei women, on Friday staged sit-in demonstrations across five districts of Imphal Valley in protest against the alleged gang rape of a 37-year-old woman in Churachandpur on May 3, when the ongoing ethnic violence started.
The proceedings in the case of gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old girl in a bus in Delhi will be held in camera, a local court on Monday ordered after the five accused were produced before it.
Three more persons, including the main accused in the Bulandshahr gangrape case, have been arrested
"Not a single woman (from Sandeshkhali) has lodged any FIR. It was me who directed the police to lodge a suo motu case. Our block president has been arrested," she said.
A fast track court to try sexual offence cases against women was inaugurated in New Delhi by Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir who advocated speedy trial of the case relating to the December 16 gangrape of the 23-year-old girl.
A day after her mortal remains were consigned to flames, ashes of the Delhi gangrape victim, who emerged as an epitome of woman's pride during her 13-day battle for life, were brought to her ancestral village by the family.
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.
From using expertise of an Indian Institute of Technology professor to enhance the blurry closed circuit television footages to tracking a tempo with a Hindi word starting with 'M' written on its side panes -- it was a virtually a wild goose chase for the Delhi police while cracking the gangrape of a business processing unit employee.
A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said the reasons cited by the convicts have no merits.
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The report, however, said the identification of accused Army personnel from Panchalthan camp was yet to be ascertained.
"The men will not repent for what they have done to didi. These bad men must be put in jail and locked in rooms all their lives till they die."This is part of a letter written by a group of children to President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday demanding stringent punishment for the culprits involved in the gangrape of a girl in a moving bus in Delhi last Sunday.
The Bombay High Court on Monday rejected a discharge plea of one of the accused in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences gangrape case after observing that there was prima facie evidence against him.
A 15-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly kidnapped by three persons, including a policeman, and gangraped in a moving car on Monday, police said.
Odisha government on Tuesday transferred Puri SP, A N Sinha, under fire from the Opposition and women's organisations for failing to register complaints in connection with the Pipili gangrape case.
Following India's victory over England in the first Twenty20 International star batsman Yuvraj Singh dedicated his man of the match award to the girl who was gangraped in a moving bus in Delhi on Sunday night.
The father of the young woman, a school topper who was felicitated by the government, said she could have been raped by eight to 10 men.
The verdict in the December 16 gangrape case involving a minor was on Thursday deferred to August 5 by the Juvenile Justice Board.
As protests over the horrendous gangrape incident intensified, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking for swift and immediate action in the case.
The victim, a student of the Maulana Azad Medical College, had been gangraped near the busy Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg.
The Congress top brass, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi, met on Saturday evening amid strong demands for swift action against the perpetrators of the horrific gangrape and assault on the 23-year-old paramedic student.
Apparently, local cops were out to give it a twist with an obvious intent to protect the culprits until a diktat was issued by director general of police Bua Singh to register the case.
In a desperate bid to escape punishment, two of the six accused in the Delhi gangrape case on Sunday told a court that they want to become witnesses on behalf of the state while two others pleaded for legal aid.
The Delhi government on announced financial aid of Rs 15 lakh and a job to the family of the 23-year-old gangrape victim who died two days ago. The decisions were taken at a Cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
Authorities in Garo Hills area of Meghalaya have provided the 18-year-old victim of gangrape an interim cash compensation of Rs 25,000. The compensation was handed over to the victim by East Garo Hills District Deputy Commissioner Vijay Kumar Montri in the hospital. The state government is bearing the entire cost of medical treatment of the girl.
Toughening his stand against recent gangrape cases in Jind and Hisar districts of Haryana, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday said there would be no laxity in dealing with these cases and the guilty would be brought to book.
Maliwal met the mother and husband of the two victims who had been paraded naked, molested and one of them was gangraped. The mother of the woman who was gangraped also lost her husband and son who were trying to save the victim from the sexual assault, the statement said.
The Singapore doctor who carried out the postmortem of the 23-year-old gangrape victim will be included as a witness by the Delhi Police in the 50-page chargesheet in the case to be filed before a fast-track court on Thursday.
President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a host of political leaders condoled the death of the girl and paid rich tributes to the victim of the sexual assault for her brave fight
One of the six accused in the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student, who died on Saturday, was remanded in judicial custody for 12 days by a Delhi court.
A one-member panel is being set up to investigate "lapses" by police in connection with the gangrape of a 23-year-old student in the national capital.
Ranaghat sub-disional hospital superintendent A N Mondal said that the nun was taken to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, over 64 km away, from where she left for an undisclosed destination.
The male friend of the 23-year old girl, who was gangraped in a moving bus in Delhi, met her for the first time in the hospital on Thursday. The male friend, a software engineer who was also badly assaulted by the accused when he tried to protect the victim from the attack, met the student at Safdurjung Hospital on Thursday night, during which he told her that the accused have been arrested, the girl's brother said on Friday.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ordered setting up of a special investigation team to probe the alleged gangrape of a teenager by five school students on June 12 and the circumstances in which a CD of the incident was made public.
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