The survivor of the 2017 Unnao rape case has vowed to challenge the Delhi High Court's decision to suspend the jail term of Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Supreme Court, calling the decision a 'death' for her family. The survivor and activists are protesting the decision, citing safety concerns and a weakening of faith in the justice system.
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court's decision to suspend the jail sentence of expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case.
'When the accused has a past record demonstrating unprecedented and unmatched criminality and perversion, I believe the interests of justice would have been better served if such a person remained behind bars.'
35,493 brides were killed in India between 2017 and 2022 -- averaging nearly 20 deaths a day -- over dowry demands, sometimes occurring even years after the wedding.
Until they were arrested on charges of murdering their husbands. That they were women from small towns who broke out of stereotype in the most brutal way possible led to sensational headlines, frantic curiosity and also gave fodder to a series of misogynistic memes and jokes.
Delhi Metro on Thursday said it has withdrawn a poster on breast cancer awareness that asked women 'to check your oranges' but the questions remained -- does the metaphor obscure the message, does it help women in a cloistered society get comfortable or more awkward by sexualising a body part.
A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices S Ravindra Bhat and Bela M Trivedi said there is no factual or legal error, apparent on the face of record requiring review of the judgment passed by this court.
In the last 75 years, there have been multiple calls for a gender-neutral term for the head of the State and debates over it.
In a judgment passed on January 19, the Bombay high court has said groping a minor's breast without 'skin-to-skin contact' cannot be termed sexual assault as defined under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The family members of the convicts, on the hand, held placards stating that "five people cannot be hanged for the death of one person".
Her protests come right after the trial court offered Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the case, saying a condemned convict is entitled to legal aide till his last breath.
Activists raised questions over the rampant sale of acid in markets and claimed that the ban exists only on paper.
The Jama Masjid on Thursday withdrew a controversial order restricting the entry of women in the mosque, after an outrage over the issue prompted Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena to intervene.
'Women's consent is central to this and the idea of equality, of bodily integrity. There needs to be some clarity on violence, that violence is violence where ever it happened. This is also a part of domestic violence'
The teen, who was with her younger sister when the attack took place at Mohan Garden near Uttam Nagar, has named two persons who could be responsible for the attack.
Bridal makeup expert Sargam Dhawan Bhayana tells you how to get the perfect wedding look.
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren came to the rescue of athlete Geeta Kumari, who was forced to sell vegetables in the streets of Ramgarh district to make ends meet. Soren's timely intervention helped Kumari get Rs 50000 from the Ramgarh district administration and also a monthly stipend of Rs 3000 to pursue her athletics career.
He was caught trying to ship to the United Arab Emirates graphite products that could be used for nuclear or military purposes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged people to pledge not to do anything that lowers the dignity of women, saying a mentality to insult them in speech and conduct has crept in.
In his 179-page judgment, Judge Bhayana said a few witnesses were deliberately introduced.
Barely a year after the killing of young IPS officer Narendra Kumar, allegedly by a member of the mining mafia, an unsuccessful attempt to run over a trainee IAS officer posted at Sabalgarh in Madhya Pradesh was made by the sand mafia on Wednesday.
Some people distributed sweets after the convicts were hanged.
The Haryana Janhit Congress, founded by former chief minister Bhajan Lal, on Wednesday moved the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking the disqualification of five Members of Legislative Assembly who were elected on party tickets but subsequently joined the ruling Congress.HJC chief Kuldeep Bishnoi filed a writ petition seeking the disqualification of the MLAs under the 10th Schedule of the Constitution.Justice Kohli also issued a notice to the Election Commission.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday deferred till Thursday the hearing on the anticipatory bail plea of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
At the time of ticket distribution, the top BJP leadership preferred the turncoats over its loyal workers.
Seeking quashing of the discharge order, his counsel submitted that before conducting medical tests on the personnel, the department should have constituted an Invalidating Board and thereafter taken a decision to remove them from the service on medical ground.
Soren has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.
Additional Sessions Judge S L Bhayana acquitted Siddarth Vashist alias Manu Sharma of charges of murder and Vikas Yadav, Tony Gill, Alok Khanna of charges of destruction of evidence.
In the previous hearing, the court was apprehensive about letting the 16-year-old girl live with the man as he had failed to produce any evidence regarding his employment.
At the same time, the bench also admitted an appeal, which challenged the trial court judgment acquitting all the accused in December 2002.
The high court had described the judgment of the then additional sessions judge Bhayana's reasoning for acquitting Sharma, as strange and totally wrong.
A Delhi court had, on December 26, 2006, convicted Soren and four others for abduction and murder of Jha.
Ajay Malik has accused K K Paul of harassing his missing father Balbir Singh.
The appeal states that the acquittal was a grave error.
"The judgement has come as a closure of something that was going on for the past seven years. The way this case was progressing, we had given up all hope of getting justice," an emotionally choked Sabrina said.
The case of the defence primarily rested on the statement given by complainant Shayan Munshi in court earlier.
Her body was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday, with her family alleging the local police forced them to conduct the last rites in the dead of the night.
The child, whose parents work as labourers in a factory, was beaten and brutalised with a sharp object. She is critical and on oxygen support, said a senior doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where she is admitted.
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