The Supreme Court is scheduled to resume hearing on Thursday a clutch of petitions challenging the remission granted to all 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Union Minister Shashi Tharoor has favoured making public the identity of the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim. Vicky Nanjappa explains why doing so is against established legal norms
The police have taken at least 50 suspects into custody in the brutal rape case of a five-year-old girl in Lahore.
Former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh also made his anger known.
Bijal Joshi was gang-raped in Ashoka hotel of Shahibaug area of Ahmedabad on the night of December 31, 2003. She later committed suicide on January 7, 2004 by hanging herself in the room. The quantum of sentence will be announced later in the day by the court.
The victim, who is now 19 years old, had been raped by the same accused two years back when she was a minor, an official said.
Let not our current anger against gang rapes undermine centuries of wisdom. Because, in doing so, we may just be putting our women at greater risk, says Amberish K Diwanji
A 20-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by two sacked jawans of the Rajasthan Police Constabulary in Kota.
Authorities in Bihar on Monday denied that the woman found hanging from a tree in Bhagalpur on Saturday was being gang-raped.
The school principal of the juvenile accused in the December 16 gangrape-cum-murder case on Monday appeared before the Juvenile Justice Board in response to its summons to help determine his exact age.
Seeing the fire engulf the mortal remains of his daughter, who was with him till last week, he fell to the ground and was rushed to a hospital.
Police said there were intelligence inputs that attempts would be made to trigger violence during the match, because of which it was cancelled.
About nine months ago, the man, whose real name she later discovered was Bakhtawar, took her to Mandanpur Shumali village under the Baheri police station area in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly.
As the Delhi gang rape trial winds to a close, the family who lost their only daughter speak of their eight-month trauma and the desperate need for capital punishment for all rapists, including the five men who brutalised the Mumbai photojournalist last week. Swarupa Dutt reports
Political leaders tend to make comments that embarrass them. On Thursday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addressing a tourism meet said, "One small incident of rape in Delhi was enough to cost of million dollars in terms of lower number of tourists. We have national responsibility and God has given us everything which tourists want to see, we just have to catalyse that process and make sure of that we take right step."
'Cases of molestation and rape are reaching the doorstep of households irrespective of their socio-economic status. That's the extent to which criminals are feeling emboldened today.'
'She had the courage to not cow down before the entire law and order apparatus, to remain sane and human despite inhuman suffering meted out to her and her family.'
Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra's statements that the gang-rape victim and her male friend should not have gone to the deserted place, and his claims that the opposition Congress was trying to "rape" him, by targeting him, following the incident has evoked sharp reactions from the Congress.
Demanding that the remission must be revoked, the citizens noted that the early release of these murderers and rapists only strengthens the impunity of all men who commit rape and other acts of violence against women.
Battling for life for the last 11 days, the 23-year-old Delhi gangrape victim was flown to Singapore on Thursday in an "extremely critical condition" and was admitted to a multi-organ transplant specialty hospital.The victim, who remained on ventilator support during most part of her treatment in Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, was brought to Singapore in an air ambulance early on Thursday morning. A team of doctors and her family members accompanied her.
One of the attackers threatened the victims with a pistol, while the others were armed with sticks, the official said.
According to the family members, she had joined the said hospital just a day before the incident.
Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson stressed the need for men to get involved in halting violence against women.
The death of a 24-year-old nurse at a private nursing home in West Bengal's Hooghly district has triggered political unrest and allegations of a cover-up. Opposition parties are demanding a fair investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death, alleging foul play and potential sexual assault.
