The Delhi high court on Friday allowed the media to cover the day-to-day proceedings of the trial in the December 16 gang rape case, which was being heard behind closed doors till date. Setting aside the order passed by the additional sessions judge on January 22, which restrained the media from covering the trial, Justice Rajiv Shakdher said, "The court will allow access to one representative journalist of each of the accredited national dailies."
The government on Thursday decided to allot a Delhi Development Authority flat to the family of the 23-year-old girl who was gangraped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus here last December.
The three accused in the gang rape of a 30-year-old American national in Manali were arrested on Thursday.
The Bodoland Territorial Region in Assam is slowly picking up the pieces and finally finding peace after being subjected to decades of insurgencies and violence.
One of the accused in the December 16 gang rape case was on Thursday not brought before the fast track court due to ill-health following which the proceedings could not take place.
A witness in the December 16 gang-rape case complained to a fast track court in New Delhi that he felt harassed by the questioning of the counsel for the accused.
A Delhi court on Wednesday upheld a magisterial court order for in-camera proceedings in the case of December 16 gang-rape of 23-year-old girl and restraining media from reporting it.
A Delhi court hearing the December 16 gang-rape-cum-murder case on Monday witnessed heated arguments between a lawyer, who sought to defend the accused, and other advocates, who vehemently objected to it even as the accused could not be produced in the overcrowded courtroom.
Scores of protesters, including the parents of the December 16 gang rape victim, were detained by the police after they staged a protest.
This is the first that the Kashmiri students have expressed solidarity with countrywide protests against the incident and demanded speedy justice in a fast-track court.
As protests against the gang-rape incident turned violent, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj on Sunday called for an all-party meeting and made an appeal to youths not to resort to violence, saying this is not the solution.
Two Delhi-based women were allegedly gang raped and assaulted by five men, who posed as officers of the anti-narcotic cell of police, at a flat in Anjuna beach village in North Goa, police said on Wednesday.
The sixth accused in gang-rape of a girl in Delhi was arrested from his house in Bihar's Aurangabad district on Friday evening.
An Air India official denied before a special court here the claim of December 16 gang rape accused that the coffin in which the body of the victim was flown back to India did not contain "human remains" and was loaded with "other things".
A plea of two accused in the December 16 gang rape that instead of day-to-day trial, it be held on alternate days, was today rejected by a special court in New Delhi, which also pulled up their lawyers saying such pleas are made to delay the proceedings.
The family of the Delhi gang rape victim has turned down an offer from the city's Sai Institute to return the fees charged from her, saying the amount should be used to help poor and needy students.
The prosecution in the December 16 gang rape case on Saturday told a court in Mumbai that the brutal assault meted out to the victim and her male friend by the alleged rapists was with a motive to "eliminate" them so that neither was left alive to narrate the horrific ordeal.
"What happened on December 16 in Delhi was sad and bad and something extraordinary, but at the same time not unique. This was made into a kind of an iconic situation," Kabir said at an event organised by the Calcutta high court to mark International Women's Day.
The family of the Delhi gang rape victim on Tuesday said it was happy that the girl's courage has been acknowledged by the United States which has selected her for a bravery award.
The police on Friday said the woman, an MBA in hospitality management, had gone out for an interview in Wakad area, taking a lift in the vehicle when she was abducted and allegedly raped by three persons, who too were seated in the taxi along with her.
Rejecting UP police claim that property could be a motive behind the gang rape and murder of two teenage cousins in Budaun, their family members on Sunday said they have no faith in state police and were not safe in the village while accusing the special investigation team (SIT) probing the case of pressurising them.
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in suburban Goregaon in Mumbai by four of her friends, police said on Monday.
The Suryanelli gang-rape case has returned to haunt Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson P J Kurien with the victim asking her advocate to explore the possibility of a review of the Supreme Court order quashing all charges against him.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea to shift the trial in Delhi gang rape-cum-murder case to a place outside the national capital.
Months after a 17 year-old-girl was gang-raped in a moving car in Surat, a district court today sentenced three youths, including two who are sons of policemen, to life imprisonment in the case that sent shock waves across the country.
Another incident of gang rape came to light in north India when a woman was thrown out of a moving car after being forced upon for two days in Punjab.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday met the family of the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim and promised them all possible help from the state government.
It is the 'tolerance' of eve teasing and harassment of women that is the start point of 'social rapes', points out Colonel Anil Athale
"She told me that after the incident that she had asked passers-by for help but to no avail and it was only after the highway patrol alerted the police that she was rushed to hospital but it had taken almost two hours", her brother told PTI in their native Medawara Kala village in Ballia, UP.
Yet another case of gang rape and murder of a teenage girl was reported from Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh, the constituency of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Pawan has confessed to beating up the victim and her male friend and demanded that he should be hanged till death.
Taking suo motu cognisance of the gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in New Delhi, the high court on Wednesday pulled up the city police asking how the offence remained undetected.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Wednesday met in the wake of the brutal gang-rape of a girl in New Delhi during which it was decided that a drive will be launched to ensure removal of tinted glasses and curtains from buses.
The CBI arrested 12 people, including a BJP worker, from Dahod district in Gujarat in connection with the gang rape of three women and the massacre of seven villagers during the post-Godhra communal riots in March 2002.
The lungs were removed to perform black magic, believing that it will help a woman give birth to a child, police said. The girl had gone missing on the night of Diwali from the Ghatampur area.
In yet another case of guardians of law turning into violators of law, a sub-inspector of police and the local village watchman together allegedly gang-raped a 39-year-old woman inside the premises of a police station in Uttar Pradesh Kushinagar district, a popular Buddhist destination.
A day after a 20-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped and set on fire, the main accused in the case was arrested from a bus station in Etawah on Saturday.
The draft of the anti-rape bill, scheduled to be tabled by the Mamata Banerjee government in the West Bengal assembly on Tuesday, proposes capital punishment for persons convicted of rape if their actions result in the victim's death or cause her to become vegetative.
The juvenile convict in the 'Nirbhaya' gang-rape case of 2012 won't be released from jail and will be under the monitoring of an NGO for a year, sources said.
Ram Singh, one of the prime accused in the gruesome December 16 gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus, allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail on Monday morning.
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