Ajit was detained in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh and was being brought to Delhi for interrogation, police sources said.
The dying declaration in the Delhi gangrape case will be of utmost importance when the police go ahead and file the chargesheet. The police will, however, need to be extremely careful while relying heavily on the dying declaration and various factors will need to be taken into consideration before making it their main point of argument before the court, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
She was allegedly gangraped by two persons, including her employer, in a car.
Fighting with great fortitude and courage after sustaining grievous injuries, the 23-year-old gangrape victim had expressed her intention to live and wanted her tormentors to be brought to justice.
Describing the 23-year-old gangrape victim who died in Singapore as a 'brave daughter of India', President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said all steps to bring the perpetrators of this 'ghastly crime' to justice should be taken to ensure that her death will not be in vain.
Convict Pradip Modhiya, a resident of Dahod district, has been released from Godhra district jail on parole due to the death of his father-in-law.
A 20-year-old girl, who was gangraped and set afire by a youth in Desarmau illage in Ekdil area, died during treatment at a hospital in Etawah, officials said.
A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan had on October 12 last year reserved its verdict after an 11-day hearing on the petitions, including the one filed by Bano.
Karuna Devi, a frail woman from a village in Bihar, is inconsolable. Her 17-year-old son Chintu Kumar, who was the main witness in her gangrape case, was burnt alive by some men on Sunday.
The health of the 23-year-old gangrape victim deteriorated on Monday after she showed tendencies of internal bleeding, with doctors calling her condition 'very serious and very critical' but psychologically fit.
The girl, a resident of Sector 6 area in Panchkula, about 15 km from Chandigarh, was allegedly lured by the two youths on some pretext on Sunday evening, Panchkula's Superintendent of Police, Manish Chaudhry said.
A Nigerian woman was allegedly gangraped by four men in a moving car in Delhi after they offered her a lift home from south Delhi's Saket area.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre and the Gujarat government to submit by October 16 the original records related to the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
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.
The owner of the bus in which the 23-year-old girl was gangraped and brutally assaulted on December 16, was on Thursday remanded in police custody for two days by a Delhi court for allegedly submitting false documents for registration of his vehicles.
Holding that "a nation in shock" is entitled to display its sense of despair, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday disapproved of "Emergency-like" restrictions against anti-gangrape protests and renewed its demand for a special Parliament session to adopt strict laws on crime against women.
The Kerala high court on Monday adjourned to March 15 the Suriyanelli gangrape case, allegedly involving Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien, as it is awaiting various records from the apex court, including the case diary and deposition of witnesses.
The judicial custody of five Jamia Millia Islamia University law students, accused of gangraping a minor girl for over two months by keeping her in captivity, was Thursday extended till January 16 by a Delhi court.
The Delhi police on Monday registered a case against an English daily for publishing material which could lead to the identification of the 23-year-old gangrape victim who died two days ago.
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
A minor gangrape victim allegedly attempted suicide by consuming poison at her residence in Ahmedabad on Saturday, police said.
Official sources said passport and Singapaore visa for the girl and some of her family members who will accompany her in the air ambulance was handed over to her on Wednesday night after it was facilitated by the External Affairs Ministry.
A small group of people gathered at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday demanding stringent punishment to those involved in the gangrape of a young girl even as India Gate remained out of bounds for demonstrations.
The otherwise sleepy Raisina Hill was on Saturday night abuzz with activity with a large number of youths shouting slogans against government and holding candlelight vigil to protest the gangrape of a young girl in a moving bus last Sunday.
As she continues to battle for her life, the 23-year-old gangrape victim has given a "fearless and bold" statement before a magistrate about the brutal assault on Sunday night and wants her tormentors to be swiftly brought to justice.
The government on Thursday constituted a committee of five eminent doctors to monitor the treatment of the 23-year-old paramedical student, who was brutally gangraped, and to ensure she gets the best possible medical attention.
"Is being part of Modi's 'political family' a 'guarantee of protection' for criminals?" Rahul Gandhi asked.
The hut, where the woman was burnt alive, was used to perform 'yagna and havan'
Meghalaya police on Monday submitted chargessheet against seven of the total 16 accused in gangrape of an 18 -year-old girl at Williamnagar in East Garo Hills district on December 13 last.
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.
In another shocker from Haryana, a teenage Dalit girl on Saturday immolated herself after allegedly being gangraped in Jind district of Haryana.
In yet another case of rape in the capital, a 40-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped on Friday in Welcome area of the capital by three persons, the police said.
A Dalit woman was allegedly gangraped multiple times over a period of four months at Khargone Kala village here by seven persons, the police said on Monday.
Police announce reward of Rs 50,000 for clues in gangrape case
Mahipal Singh, accused of raping a 16-year-old girl with seven of his friends was arrested in New Delhi on Saturday.
A minor girl was allegedly gangraped in the city by five school students over a month ago and CDs and MMS of the act were circulated, according to an First Information Report lodged by Bihar Women's Commission.
Under attack for allegedly shielding accused persons in Pipili gangrape case, Odisha's Agriculture Minister Pradip Maharathy on Thursday resigned on 'moral ground' and in the 'interest' of the ruling Biju Janata Dal ahead of next month's panchayat elections.
As the police is giving its final touches to the chargesheet in the sensational Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, gangrape case, the victim - a 23-year-old US national -- has returned to her home town.
The order restraining airing or broadcasting the interview of a December 16 gangrape convict, which was conducted inside the Tihar jail, will continue till further orders, a Delhi court on Wednesday said.
Two girl students were allegedly gangraped by five fellow students at a lodge in Bihar's Nalanda district on Monday, the police said.
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