Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said she firmly believes that culprits of such crimes like the brutal gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai should be given death sentence.
A Class XII student was allegedly gang raped by four youths, including a Bahujan Samaj Party leader, in a moving car in Meerut, police said.
Three men found guilty of gang-raping two women in the abandoned Shakti Mills in Mumbai last year were sentenced to death by a court on Friday, bringing into force for the first time the new law for repeat rape offenders.
Pujari, who worked at an IT firm in Kharadi was kidnapped on October 7, 2009 evening from Kharadi bypass, while waiting for a transport to return home.
A teenaged girl was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by four persons in a moving vehicle in the Phulpur area of the district, police said on Monday.
A number of suspects are being questioned in connection with the gang rape of a Swiss woman in the Datia district of Madhya Pradesh, police said on Sunday while expressing hope of solving the case soon.
Bharaiya Janata Party leader Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said he has no sympathy for the gang rape accused who allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail.
Mahant Satya Narayan was hiding in the house of his follower in a village under Ughaiti police station from where he was picked up.
A juvenile court on Monday ruled that a suspect in the fatal gang-rape of a young woman in New Delhi last month was a juvenile at the time of the attack, and may get off with a light sentence may have drawn sharp criticisms from all quarters, but child rights activists and defence counselors argue that the changing the law is not the answer. Priyanka reports.
Delhi witnessed a number of protest demonstrations and rallies on Wednesday against the horrific gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus on Sunday night.
Police said the 32-year-old victim, who was a passenger of the Brahmaputra Mail that was travelling to the national capital, was dragged to the mango orchard and gang-raped by unidentified persons after she alighted from the train between Vikramshila and Kahalgaon stations.
There has been mixed response to Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's tweet that the name of the 23-year-old woman who was gang raped on December 16 in New Delhi be revealed.
Top BJP leaders, including Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj, will offer tribute to the 23-year-old brave heart who died after battling for life for 13 days after being brutally gang-raped by six men in a moving bus.
'We will examine without delay not only the responses to this terrible crime but also all aspects concerning the safety of women and children and punishment to those who commit these monstrous crimes. Our government will keep you informed of the steps we are taking and the processes we are following,' says PM and appeals for calm
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail pleas of two of the five accused in the Park Street gang rape case, saying it was not a fit case for granting relief, as two of the alleged culprits are still absconding. The apex court refused to interfere with the Calcutta high court's order denying bail to Sumit Bajaj and Mohd Nasir Khan, who were among the five youths accused of gang-raping an Anglo-Indian woman in a car on February 5 last year.
Making a statement in Parliament on the Mumbai photojournalist gang rape case, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday said he had asked Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil to ensure the fast tracking of the case and also assured the House that early judgement will be delivered.
The five men approached the high court challenging their conviction and sentence.
The police today filed a chargesheet, against four accused in connection with the July 31 gang-rape of an 18-year-old telephone operator on the premises of Shakti Mills compound in Mumbai.
The West Bengal government has decided to hand over the Rangaghat nun gang-rape case to the Central Bureau of Investigation "considering the seriousness and sensitivity of the case", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday.
The 35-year-old woman and her 14-year-old daughter will also receive an apartment each as compensation.
Three convicts in the Shakti Mills photojournalist gang-rape case have approached the Bombay high court to challenge the framing of charge against them under Section 376 (e) of the Indian Penal Code which can be punishable by the death sentence.
The Delhi police on Thursday arrested two persons for their alleged involvement in the abduction and rape of a 30-year-old call centre employee in Delhi last week. The two, identified as Shamshad and Usman, have a criminal background and were allegedly involved in a gang-rape case earlier also."These people have criminal backgrounds. They were involved in gang-rape case earlier," a police official said. Shamshad and Usman are in their early 20s.
The woman, who is from Madhya Pradesh, was waiting for transport to return home around 10 pm when the duo stopped their vehicle, offered her a ride and raped her.
A fast track court will pronounce on September 10 its verdict in the December 16 gang-rape case in which four adult accused were tried for brutal rape and murder of 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in south Delhi.
The 23-year-old photojournalist, who was gang-raped at a defunct mill complex in Mumbai nearly a week ago, has been discharged from hospital after doctors attending on her declared her "medically fit".
Chetan Shah said he suspects the victim's family was not keen to have him represent them.
Two minor girls were gang raped on Wednesday by 15 boys when they were returning from a temple in Bihar's Rohtas district.
The 23-year-old photojournalist in the Mumbai gang-rape case identified her assaulters and fainted inside the court during her four-hour deposition on Thursday following which she was taken to a city hospital.
What makes the brutality every more evident, is that her oesophagus was missing and gnawing effects were seen over chest of the victim.
He was later taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where his condition is stated to be stable.
A Delhi court on Monday convicted four members of the prestigious President's Bodyguards in the six-year-old Buddha Jayanti Park gang rape case. Harpreet Singh and Satyender Singh were found guilty of raping a 17-year-old student of a Delhi University college while two others -- Kuldeep Singh and Manish Kumar -- were convicted for helping them commit the offence. The victim, who had gone with her boyfriend Ashish to the park near Rashtrapati Bhavan on October 6, 2003.
The Haryana Police has told the Punjab and Haryana HC that the section on gang rape had been added to the FIR in the case.
Two forensic experts, who had provided scientific support and services in the probe into the December 16 gang rape-cum-murder case, were cross-examined by the defence counsel for four adult accused in a Delhi court.
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The two forensic experts, who had provided scientific support and services in the investigation into the December 16 gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in New Delhi, testified as prosecution witnesses before the fast-track court on Thursday.
A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped and strangulated to death while she was returning home from school in Nadia district, the police said on Tuesday.
In recognition of the award for Sharma, the Asia Society said the officer "has led the investigation and prosecution of several high-profile crimes in India, including the infamous Delhi gang rape case that earlier this year turned into a television series. She has transformed police work and the roles of policewomen in India."
Two of the accused were arrested on Tuesday, while the priest is on the run, police said, adding that the woman's leg was fractured and there were injuries in her private parts.
A 14-year-old girl who was gang-raped allegedly by two youth earlier this month in the neighbouring Raigad district, was also molested by a local Nationalist Congress Party leader on the very same day of the incident, the police said.
Having undergone a surgery to remove her gangrenous intestine, the 23-year-old paramedical student gang-raped on Sunday passed an "uneventful night" and is "stable, alert and conscious", doctors treating her said on Thursday.
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