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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Five men have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a sessions court in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, for looting, assaulting, abducting two Army trainee officers and their two female friends, and gangraping one of them. The incident occurred in September 2022 on the Mhow-Mandleshwar road. The sixth accused, a minor, is being tried separately in the juvenile court.
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.
The Sub-divisional magistrate, who had recorded the statement of the December 16 Delhi gang rape victim, on Wednesday testified before the Juvenile Justice Board in New Delhi.
A sessions court on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail petition of Vinamra Soni, charged with gang rape of a 23-year-old US national along with five others, on the ground that there was prima facie sufficient evidence to nail him in the case.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi expressed deep shock and outrage over the brutal gang rape-and-murder of the young woman, and highlighted the need for "revisiting" the issue of women safety.
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A 20-year old tribal woman was allegedly gang-raped at Labhpur in Birbhum district by 13 persons, as they were against her affair with a man from a different community.
Sharing the widespread outrage over Delhi gang-rape, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described it as "very upsetting" incident and directed Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to ensure such cases do not recur.
Distressed over gang rape of its national in Madhya Pradesh, Switzerland on Saturday sought a "swift" investigation into the incident so that the victim gets justice.
A woman police constable, on her way with family members to cremate her brother-in-law, was allegedly gang raped by a gang of dacoits on National Highway 75 near Jagaldaga in Latehar district of Jharkhand, police said on Saturday.
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."
The Delhi police on Wednesday told a fast track court that they cannot direct IGNOU to provide a copy of the examination schedule for BA first year to one of the accused in the December 16 gang rape case.
One of the six accused in the December 16 gang rape and murder case has pleaded before the Supreme Court for shifting the trial outside Delhi saying that free and fair hearing is not possible because of strong public sentiment against him.
The Datia police have filed a charge sheet against six accused in a local court, for allegedly gang-raping a Swiss woman on March 16 in a forest, the police said.
He said, a message should go across the country, not just in Rajasthan that 'this will not be tolerated'.
Expressing profound grief over the alleged gang rape and murder of a 32-year-old woman in Bihar's Bhagalpur district, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in the state is investigating the entire matter and strict actions will be taken against those accused of the heinous crime.
A 33-year-old married woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a temple priest and his accomplice in a village in Madhya Pradesh and then sold off for Rs 40,000 to three brothers, who also gang raped her, the police said.
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.
"PM is deeply concerned about the incidents in Hisar, Haryana and Nadia, West Bengal," the PMO tweeted.
The ban on media reporting on the proceedings of a local court in the Delhi gang-rape case reached the high court on Friday, with some journalists seeking permission for publishing the trial.
The Delhi police will file its chargesheet in connection with the gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl in the metropolitan magistrate's court in Saket on Thursday.
In a chilling reminder of the horrific Delhi gang rape, an 18-year-old girl was raped in a moving bus in the outskirts of Dhaka.
A 42-year-old woman was allegedly sedated and raped by three men in Uttar Pradesh who then dumped her in south-east Delhi, the police said on Thursday. The fresh case comes close on the heels of a 23-year-old girl being gang-raped in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16.
Bihar police on Thursday arrested three accused in the alleged gang-rape of a teenage girl in Patna by her friends and classmates. The accused had filmed the incident and distributed CDs and MMS's of the crime, police on Thursday said.
Delhi-based businessman Sajal Jain and three of his friends allegedly raped Bijal Joshi after which she committed suicide.
The doctor is battling for life at a city hospital as the attackers tried to strangulate her after which she fell unconscious, police said. Hospital sources said her condition was very critical.
The five men approached the high court challenging their conviction and sentence.
A 20-year-old girl has alleged she was abducted and gang-raped by five persons, police said on Wednesday.
A woman was allegedly gang-raped within the premises of a police station in Khadda area in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, police said on Monday.
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.
As outrage spread over the horrific gang rape of two Dalit sisters in the district, authorities on Friday sacked two constables in connection with the crime even as police arrested another accused in the case.
A seven-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped at a park in South Delhi's Tigri area on Saturday evening.
The minor accused in the gang-rape case was identified on Wednesday by the photojournalist and her male colleague during an identification parade held at juvenile remand home in south Mumbai, police said.
Under fire from the opposition in the wake of gang rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist in Mumbai, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil is personally supervising the probe into the case round the clock.
Fourteen years after being gang raped and paraded naked in public, Mukhtaran Mai sent a message of hope as she walked the runway at Fashion Pakistan Week 2016.
