The government on Wednesday said it would not allow broadcast of a controversial documentary featuring a convict as members of the December 16 Delhi gang rape as members of Parliament, cutting across party lines, expressed outrage over the incident.
The accused have been identified as Rajpreet Singh, Virender Singh, Sachin Bhati, Arpit Dhankar and Susheel Pradhan, the police said.
'If my brother was a criminal they could have filed a case against him and put him on trial. Why kill him?' This is not justice.'
A seven-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped at a park in South Delhi's Tigri area on Saturday evening.
After 11 days, the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department arrested two men in the gang rape of a 71-year-old nun during an attack on a convent in West Bengal's Ranaghat, about 100 km from Kolkata.
Additional director general of police Pramod Ban is the head of the AGTF.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has issued directions from the Enforcement Directorate custody to ensure that medicines and tests are available to people at all government hospitals and Mohalla Clinics, Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said on Tuesday.
The purpose of the interrogation is to get some leads on the whereabouts of Santosh Jadhav, a member of the Bishnoi gang and one of the accused in the Moosewala murder case, who is currently on the run, he said.
It further claimed the prosecution has not been able to establish Khan had any intention to cause the murder (of Kolhe) in order to invoke UAPA or IPC provisions.
The hearing on Bilkis Bano's plea challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the gang-rape case by the Gujarat government, could not be held in the Supreme Court on Tuesday as the judges concerned were hearing a matter related to passive euthanasia as part of a five-judge Constitution bench.
Khan became part of the racket in March 2021, which continued till her death, he said.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala assured Bano, represented through her lawyer Shobha Gupta, that the new bench will be formed at the earliest.
Parihar carried a reward of Rs 7.25 lakh on his head.
The leader of a five-member gang which had allegedly abducted and raped a 30-year-old call centre employee in New Delhi, was on Monday night arrested from neighbouring Haryana, police said.
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the Gujarat government's decision to release all 11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for gang rape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven members of her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Three minor Dalit girls were allegedly assaulted and gang-raped by seven men for opposing eve-teasing in Singauli village in Badaun, police said on Tuesday.
A 21-year-old student of National Law School was allegedly raped by an eight-member gang inside the adjacent Jnanabharathi campus of Bangalore University, police said on Monday. The second-year student, staying in the university hostel, in her police complaint said the incident took place when she had went out with her boyfriend, who works with an IT firm, on Saturday night.
A seven-year-old girl was gang-raped allegedly by two youths after they forcibly took her to a field in Koop village of Rampur district in Uttar Pradesh. According to the police, the minor had gone to a nearby shop on Wednesday to recharge a mobile phone. She was forcibly taken to a farmland by Santosh and Devesh, who raped her there.
'He killed so many people, doing the kind of horrible things he did, and yet, he believed he was making the right choices.'
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will travel to India to attend the meeting of G20 foreign ministers on March 2, during which he is expected to hold his first bilateral meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
Lawyer Seema Kushwaha, who is representing the Dalit woman's family, said on Thursday that they will challenge the verdict in the high court.
Soccer fans watch the telecast of the World Cup game between Argentina and Saudi Arabia on a Kolkata street with the God Of Football (Diego Maradona holding the 1986 World Cup trophy poster) to keep them company.
Residents of Kolkata are fuming over the recent gang rape of a 27-year-old mother of two at Maheshtala in the southern fringe of the city. After the incident, the victim, almost unconscious, was thrown off a moving car.
Diwali celebrations have started in the United States from the iconic Times Square in New York, with the United States Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump celebrating the festival of lights at their residences on Friday.
A four-member Special Investigating Team has been constituted to probe the shocking gang rape and murder case of two teenaged sisters in Katra Sadatganj village in Badaun, officials said.
Teenage members of a violent gang called 'Kill More Curries' are suspected to be behind the ongoing attacks on Indians in Melbourne.
Bihar State Women Commission has begun its probe into the alleged gang-rape of a minor girl in Madhepura district. The victim delivered a baby girl at Sadar hospital and became an unwed minor mother, officials on Friday said.
The announcement was a surprise as the new administration to be headed by the new Premier is scheduled to take over during the annual Parliament session slated to be held from March 5 next year.
The top court said the faith of people in the efficacy of law is the saviour and succour for the sustenance of the rule of law.
The rape charge could not be proved against the prime accused, his lawyer Munna Singh Pundir said.
Aarya Aakhri Vaar should have been slicker and more polished than the first, or at least ended with a louder bang, observes Deepa Gahlot.
The police on Sunday said that they received the autopsy report late on Saturday and it also confirmed that the girl had been raped.
The Press Council of India has appointed a one-man inquiry committee to look into the facts of the gang rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist in Mumbai.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) in Delhi reprimanded Jadavpur University for submitting a "generic" report about the incident.
Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Friday amid an uproar in the House over the issue of law and order situation in Rajasthan.
The apex court directed members of the bar not to obstruct judicial proceedings in the Kathua gang rape and murder case in Jammu and Kashmir
However, dismissing any psycho angle to the killings, police on Thursday claimed to have made the breakthrough after they arrested two persons, who allegedly admitted that they along with their gang members, had killed the people for money to buy drugs and liquor. The other gang members were yet to be nabbed.
Three associates of the dreaded D Gang were picked up in Mangalore in connection with several cases of extortion. A team of the Ullal police station in Magalore launched a massive manhunt for three of Chota Shakeel's associates and finally managed to nab them on Friday night.
Madhya Pradesh Assembly was on Tuesday adjourned sine die three days before schedule following ruckus and uproarious scenes created by the opposition Congress demanding resignation of Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta, on the issue of gang rape of a Swiss woman in Datia district.
A few days later, three members of the Bishnoi gang delivered a letter threatening Bollywood actor Salman Khan and his father Salim Khan, police had said.
