It was only late on Saturday night that police approached the officials of a crematorium in south-west Delhi for an early morning cremation of the 23-year-old gangrape victim.
As people's anger over the death of Delhi gangrape victim spilled out into the streets, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday broke his silence on the ghastly incident calling for introspection and resolve to ensure the security and dignity of women.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday faced public rage when she was forced to return from Jantar Mantar where she went to take part in mourning the death of the 23-year-old gangrape victim.
Yogendra Tomar, who claims to be an eyewitness to Subhash Tomar's injury during the gangrape protests at the India Gate, has said that the constable was not assaulted by protestors but simply collapsed while walking.
Yogendra Tomar, who claims to be an eyewitness to Subhash Tomar's injury during the gangrape protests at the India Gate, has said that the constable was not assaulted by protestors but simply collapsed while walking.
The condition of the 23-year-old gangrape victim was on Tuesday better than the previous day though she was still on ventilator, doctors attending on her said.
Close on the heels of the gangrape of a paramedical student in a moving bus in Delhi, a 38-year-old woman was allegedly raped by two youths in a similar modus operandi in Jammu.
Delhi Commissioner of police Neeraj Kumar, whose resignation has been demanded by Congress Member of Parliament Sandeep Dikshit and several other political parties has made it clear that he is not planning to quit.
An emotional father of the Delhi gangrape victim tonight appealed to the protesters to stop vandalism and help police in bringing the culprits to justice at the earliest. He also appealed to the people to pray for his 23-year-old daughter, who is fighting for her life at a city hospital.
A former chief justice of India will constitute the Commission of Inquiry which will look into the gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in Delhi, lapses by the police and measures to be taken to ensure the safety of women in Delhi and other parts of the country.
A large number of members of the minority community are uneasy about returning to their homes in Asthan village in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, from where they had to flee 10 days ago following violent communal clashes over the rape of a Dalit girl.
'It is not the chief minister who would have rung up and told the local police station to botch up the case.' 'No chief minister or chief secretary or DGP would like a case like this happening in their state.'
The hectic legal proceedings in the Danish woman gangrape case on Thursday took the prosecution by surprise, as the victim who supported the case in the trial court turned hostile in the Juvenile Justice Board where she failed to identify the three minor offenders.
'When you sow a small plant, then you keep watch on it so that wild cattle should not eat that sapling.'
A senior Congress leader on Thursday alleged that a minister of the Left Front government in Tripura allegedly offered money to two gangrape rape victims to withdraw cases with the police, a charge that was denied.
The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Kerala high court's order acquitting 35 accused in the Suryanelli gangrape case of 1996 in which a 16-year-old girl was gang-raped for over 40 days.
In yet another incident of crime against women in West Bengal capital, a young woman was allegedly gangraped at Chetla in southern part of the city, the police said.
An MBA student, who had allegedly been gang-raped by 11 men in Noida in 2009, has identified ten of the accused in a Delhi court. The eleventh accused, who is a juvenile, was not produced in the court.
People in India on Friday woke up to the news that the Hyderabad Police had killed the four accused in the Hyderabad veterinarian's rape and murder in a police encounter. While some leaders of political parties celebrated, some questioned if this was the way to go.
The quantum of punishment will be announced later on Monday.
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The duo allegedly kidnapped the girl by forcing her into a taxi and drove her to the Park Circus flyover where they took turns to rape the minor inside the vehicle.
Parents of the December 16 gang rape victim participated in a candlelight march at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi demanding justice for their daughter.
The Bombay high court on Thursday rejected bail pleas of the seven convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case after observing that it was a "serious offence".
Surendra Singh said that children should not be given undue freedom and asked parents not to give mobile phones to them.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence awarded to the four convicts in the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old girl in New Delhi on December 16, 2012 that shook the nation's conscience and led to widespread protests.
They've both been scarred by the henious act of rape. Meet bravehearts Asha Singh Nirbhaya's mother, and rape survivor Seeta Prajapat who continue their fight against this terrible crime.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana on Thursday refused to grant any relief to Akshay Kumar, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh and rejected the petition saying no valid ground has been brought to his notice to justify the stay of execution of death warrants scheduled on March 20 at 5:30 am.
Eight people have been arrested for the brutal gangrape of four school girls in Pakur district, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said on Tuesday.
Father of the girl, who was gangraped and allegedly burnt to death in Madhyamgram in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, said he will not return to Kolkata and has accepted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's offer of job in police at his native place.
A curative petition is the last and final judicial remedy available to a person convicted by courts of law.
Days after allegations of rape by Jat quota agitators near Haryana's Murthal, a woman came forward and registered a case of gangrape against seven people.
The Delhi Police has lodged an FIR and secured a court order restraining the media from carrying the interview.
The Centre on Monday asked the West Bengal government to send a report on the incident
A seminary girl student has made a shocking revelation that sex abuse is rampant in her seminary in Pakistan. Sixteen-year-old Hafiza Shafia Saeed has disclosed that every girl student in her seminary at Astana Aalia Nooria Koh Chandan was subjected to sex abuse by the 'scions' of the pirs, The News reported.
"We are in the process of declaring a cash reward of Rs. 1 lakh to anyone who can lead us to the accused. We have detained four relevant suspects in the case and are questioning them," Deputy Commissioner of Police (south Delhi), HGS Dhaliwal said.
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.
Following is the chronology of events in the sensational 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case in which four death row convicts were hanged Friday morning.
'Why the victim of Unnao gangrape case was not given security keeping in mind an earlier incident of Unnao? What action has been taken on the police official who refused to register an FIR? What steps are being taken by the government to stop crime against the women, which take place on a daily basis?'
After battling for her life for almost 40 hours, the 23-year-old woman died following a cardiac arrest on Friday night at the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi.
'So why didn't the police make it very clear that this is the line of investigation, this is what we are doing.' 'Nobody knows what kind of report was done.' 'Was she checked for (sexual assault)?'
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