The police have failed to instill confidence, the judiciary has failed to deliver timely justice, the politician has failed to lead the way, feels Renu Mittal
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Juvenile Justice Board to deliver its verdict in the December 16 gang rape-cum-murder case involving a minor.
Amid an outcry over the death of a 16-year-old girl who was gang-raped twice and had set herself ablaze, the West Bengal government on Thursday condemned politics over her body and claimed that it had fully cooperated with the bereaved family.
Uttar Pradesh still reeling from the dastardly rapes of two sisters in Badaun was left shocked after another woman was allegedly raped, murdered and hanged from a tree in a village of Bahraich district.
A 16-year-old girl was abducted and gang raped for 20 days allegedly by four persons who also tried to sell her to human traffickers in Nepal, a senior police officer said.
A Noida-based man whose wife and minor daughter were gang-raped by highway robbers in Uttar Pradesh said that the family of three will commit suicide if police fail to give them justice in three months.
Parents of the December 16 gang-rape victim on Tuesday welcomed the passage of the long-pending Juvenile Justice Bill saying that it will deter juveniles from committing such crime against women even though they rued that their daughter has been denied justice.
Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar has courted controversy after he described the accused in the gang rape as "nave".
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday handed over a cheque of Rs 15 lakh as ex-gratia to the father of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim.
The incident took place on Friday night when a family was travelling from Noida to Shahjahanpur by car.
The Supreme Court has directed the CBI and Manipur SITs to provide copies of charge sheets in the 2023 Manipur ethnic violence cases to the victims and their families, ensuring legal aid and addressing concerns about the progress of investigations and victim support.
The Supreme Court has directed the CBI and Manipur SITs to provide charge sheets in the 2023 Manipur ethnic violence cases to the victims and their families, ensuring legal aid and covering travel expenses for court appearances in Guwahati.
The Supreme Court has directed the CBI and Manipur SITs to provide copies of charge sheets in the 2023 Manipur ethnic violence cases to the victims and their families, ensuring legal aid and addressing concerns over investigation progress and victim support.
A Delhi court on Thursday directed the officials concerned of Delhi University, Indira Gandhi National Open University and the Tihar Jail to make arrangements for December 16 gang rape accused Vinay Sharma to write his BA first year exams from prison premises.
The lawyers' licences could be cancelled if their response is not adequate
Kalyan Banerjee claimed that Moitra, the Krishnanagar MP, was back in India after her honeymoon and started attacking him.
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
The Supreme Court has directed the CBI to submit a status report on the FIRs related to the 2023 Manipur ethnic violence and is considering having the Manipur or Gauhati High Courts monitor the trials.
A fast track court hearing the December 16 gang-rape case on Friday asked the counsel for the accused not to "harass" the victim's male friend who is deposing as a prosecution witness.
The neighbours of an accused in the December 16 gang rape case on Thursday claimed in a Delhi court that he was attending a music function with friends and was not in the bus in which a 23-year-old girl was gang-raped by six persons.
A teenaged girl was gang-raped allegedly by three to four unidentified men and then dumped at a parking lot in Connaught Place in New Delhi, the police said on Wednesday
A woman in Gayaji has alleged that she was gang-raped inside an ambulance which drove her to a hospital after she fainted during a government recruitment test, police said on Saturday.
It's not the clothes or the rebellion that invites violence, but the mindset that continues to police and condition girls and encourages the perpetrator, instead of punishing the criminals. This lack of empathy is what ultimately brings The Kerala Story 2 down, observes Divya Nair.
After much pressure from Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, the police have arrested Neel Nidhi Singh, main accused of the gang-rape of 5 Mahadalit women, all rag-pickers, in a village in Bihar's Bhojpur district.
Unhappy with the three-year sentence to the juvenile convicted in the brutal December 16 gang rape, Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung said there was a need to review laws for juveniles, including the age limit in cases of heinous crimes.
A 35-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by four persons, including a police constable and a homeguard, at Kothkota bus stand in Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh in the wee hours on Thursday, police said.
Doctors found scratch marks on the body of Monojit Mishra, the arrested prime accused in the gang rape of a student at a Kolkata law college, a well-placed police source said on Tuesday.
The Rajya Sabha saw a heated debate on Wednesday after Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that the government that a restraining order has been order against the broadcast of BBC documentary 'India's Daughter' on the December 2012 Delhi gang rape.
The family of the 16-year-old girl, who was gang-raped and murdered in West Bengal, on Tuesday met President Pranab Mukherjee demanding stringent punishment for the guilty.
The victim's mother Asha Devi, in a display of extraordinary courage, took her daughter's name in public.
The mother of the young woman, said, ""The government talks about Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao, but is this the price one has to pay for getting our daughters educated? The accused are roaming freely but police has failed to nab them."
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday upheld life imprisonment to five persons, who gang-raped a 24-year-old city girl after a New Year night party in 2003, at a hotel, where she was lured by her boyfriend Sajal Jain.
While thousands of people continue to stage day-long protests on the streets of Lucknow against the gang-rape of a 23-year-old in New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday sent Rs 5 lakh to the victim's family.
The four allegedly pulled the woman, who was sitting in the National Games Village Park at Koramangala, into their car at around 10 PM on March 25 and sped in the vehicle.
Two of the accused in December 16 gang rape case on Friday alleged that the investigation as well as conduct of the authorities has not been impartial due to "political pressure".
The Calcutta high court on Thursday said it would monitor the Criminal Investigation Department investigation into the Kamduni gangrape and murder case and also questioned the justification of state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's fixing of a time frame for completing the probe.
The parents ave moved the National Human Rights Commission saying that the juvenile offender in the rape and murder of their daughter, who will be released on December 15, continues to be a threat to society.
"When the judgement was being delivered by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), presided over by Principal Magistrate Geetanjali Goel, the victim's younger brother tried to attack the minor," the sources at the Board said.
The victim was married to Jagannath in Reni village. She alleged that since her marriage in January last year, her husband and in-laws used to beat her up and demand dowry of Rs 51,000, according to the state police.
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