The apex court said when a particular structure is chosen all of a sudden for demolition and the rest of similarly situated structures in the same vicinity are not even being touched, "mala fide may loom large".
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.
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 brothers claimed to be victims of an anti-Muslim conspiracy and accused police of fabricating evidence against them.
An alleged incident of gang-rape and murder has triggered massive protests in Lakhimpur district of eastern Assam over the failure of the police to nab the culprits. The incident occurred at Boginadi area of the district.
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.
All the five accused in the gang rape of a photojournalist in a secluded area of a defunct mill have been arrested by police with the remaining two suspects on the run being held today three days after the crime which will be tried in a fast track court.
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Less than nine months after the December 16 brutal gang rape incident, a fast track Delhi court on Tuesday held all the five accused, including a man who died during the trial, guilty of rape and cold blooded murder of a "defenceless" 23-year-old girl that can fetch them death.
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 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.
Five teenagers have been arrested by the police on charges of gang rape of a minor girl following a first information report lodged by the victim's parents at the Basistha police station in Guwahati
The Manipur Police personnel allegedly drove the two women from the Kuki-Zomi community, who had sought refuge in their official Gypsy, to a mob of around 1,000 Meiti rioters in Kangpokpi district, the Central Bureau of Investigation chargesheet has said.
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.
Two of the accused in the Delhi gang-rape case on Thursday claimed before a special court that they were not in the bus in which a 23-year-old girl was brutally assaulted and raped by six persons on December 16 night.
Karnataka Home Minister K J George has stoked a controversy with remarks suggesting that two men raping a woman cannot be termed as gangrape, drawing severe flak from parties and activists while the National Commission for Women issued a notice to him seeking an explanation.
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.
The Delhi high court on reserved its verdict on the appeals filed by four death row convicts in the December 16 gang rape case.
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.
It was submitted that section 235 of the CrPC provides that an accused, in the event of conviction, would be heard by on the question of sentencing individually before the trial judge passes the order awarding punishment.
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.
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.
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The incident took place on Friday night when a family was travelling from Noida to Shahjahanpur by car.
A 28-year-old trainee nun was allegedly gang-raped by three youths, including two cousins, after holding her forcibly for about a week in Odisha's Ganjam and Gajapati districts, police sources said on Monday.
The victim's mother Asha Devi, in a display of extraordinary courage, took her daughter's name in public.
A teenage girl was allegedly abducted and gang raped by three police personnel in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district.
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 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.
Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar has courted controversy after he described the accused in the gang rape as "nave".
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.
Mumbai Police, which is probing the gang rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist, on said it has recovered two more mobile phones carried by the accused during the ghastly crime.
Director General of Police R K Shukla announced the suspension of the four officials -- three inspectors and a sub-inspector -- for their alleged negligence which led to the delay in registering the offence.
Saxena has also approved engaging Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to represent the Delhi government in the case, a senior official said.
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".
Jamaat-ud-Dawah founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has in an interview with a Pakistani news channel said that India has always maintained double standards when it came to relationship with Pakistan. Tahir Ali reports
The Justice Usha Mehra panel, constituted to review responses to the December 16 gang-rape case and suggest measures to improve safety and security of women in Delhi, will receive public opinion and suggestions till January 18.
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 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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