'I do this today for myself, for my children, and for women everywhere'
Two boys allegedly raped their 13-year-old classmate inside the classroom of their civic-run school in Matunga area of Mumbai, after which the police registered a case against them, an official said on Friday.
The incident took place on the night of November 1. Following the incident, hundreds of BHU students had held a protest on the campus and demanded that the entry of outsiders be banned.
The police have identified the culprits and eight people were detained in this connection.
Akshay Kumar and Urmila Matondkar expressed shock over a May 4 video of two women being paraded naked in strife-hit Manipur and demanded punishment for the perpetrators of the 'horrifying' incident.
A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said the reasons cited by the convicts have no merits.
"Is being part of Modi's 'political family' a 'guarantee of protection' for criminals?" Rahul Gandhi asked.
These personalities, from god-men of questionable conduct, to politicians at the helm of affairs, are just unable to gauge the growing public anger. Many wish these irresponsible remarks are the last things an unsafe India requires to tackle this menace. Some remarks reek of a pathetic mindset, others are plain stupid. Rediff.com takes a look at some of these remarks:
One of the accused in December 16 gang-rape and murder trial today claimed before a special court in New Delhi that the witness did not turn up on his behalf as he is "afraid" and was "tortured" by Delhi Police officials.
The assault and humiliation of two women paraded naked in a Manipur village in May sparked nationwide outrage on Thursday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the incident had shamed 140 crore Indians and the Supreme Court terming it 'simply unacceptable'.
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Justice Gautam Patel was hearing a petition filed by Indian Hotels and Restaurant Association challenging the police directive setting 1.30 am as the cut-off citing concerns of law and order, security and women safety.
The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case of gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 riots in the state, saying the orders were "stereotyped" and passed without application of mind.
There are some convicts who are "more privileged", the Supreme Court said on Thursday while hearing pleas challenging the grant of remissions to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case and the murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The minor girl was allegedly raped by one Ranjeet, who works as a guard and resides in the ground floor of the same building as the victim.
Activists associated with women's movements from different parts of India on Wednesday wrote an open letter to social activist Anna Hazare expressing their disappointment over the Gandhian campaigning for the Trinamool Congress Party in the upcoming Loksabha elections.
The Delhi Police has lodged an FIR and secured a court order restraining the media from carrying the interview.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday expressed anguish over the gruesome gangrape of a 23-year-old photojournalist in Mumbai.
Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed Congress for giving ticket to Adarsh scam tainted Ashok Chavan and promised to take "proactive" action against leaders guilty of corruption once BJP comes to power at the Centre.
In the fourth such incident in Delhi within the span of a month, an 18-year-old girl was abducted and raped allegedly by a group of youths in outer Delhi after she protested against lewd remarks being passed at her.
The five men approached the high court challenging their conviction and sentence.
Six people were arrested on Thursday in connection with the rape and murder of the two girls.
'Our senselessness on caste issue has gone so deep that we need to have a sensitivity test on why we as Indians have become so numb to such mindless violence.'
The incident occurred late in the night on Sunday in the upmarket area of Clifton and the girl was held by the assailants for six hours before they left her near the Seaview beach area
Taking suo motu cognisance of the gang-rape incident, the Delhi high court on Wednesday decided to monitor its investigation by directing police to carry a "high standard" probe and file the charge sheet only after the court's perusal.
The Centre and the Gujarat government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that they may file a plea seeking a review of its March 27 order asking them to be ready with original files on the grant of remission to the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case.
From the Congress party, I demand justice for the Hathras victim. India is a country for all and everyone has the right to live with dignity, Sonia said.
'The male members of the victim family will be questioned today in Hathras, they will go to a temporary office set up by the CBI in Hathras. Female members will be questioned at home by CBI officials'
The victim, who had flown back to the US soon after the incident, appeared before a special fast track court and deposed against the six arrested accused.
Two minors were brutally gangraped in the city, incidents which comes close on the heels of the rape of a four-year-old girl in northwest Delhi last week.
Seven accused were held on Tuesday while one person is still at large, the official said, adding all of them fall in the age bracket of 20-25.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha was urged by lawyer Shobha Gupta, appearing for Bano, that another bench was needed to be constituted to hear the case.
The girl told police that she was coming back home when he had lured her to the bus, in which his friends were waiting, by promising her a job.
The crime, which took place inside a parked tempo in the wee hours, had sent shockwaves through the city and evoked the memories of the 2012 Delhi gangrape case due to the brutal
The woman's family has alleged that she was gangraped by the men as they did not withdraw the rape case against them.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred to May 9 the hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the remission granted to the 11 convicts last year in the case of gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of her family members during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
Taking serious note of the gruesome gang-rape of a para-medic in a moving bus at Delhi, the parliamentary standing committee on home affairs has convened a meeting on December 27 to discuss the issue.
The Bombay high court on Thursday commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to three convicts in the 2013 gangrape case of a 22-year-old photojournalist inside the defunct Shakti Mills compound in central Mumbai, saying that they 'deserve imprisonment for life to repent the offence committed by them'.
In the wake of a widespread outrage over the gang rape and brutal assault of a 23-year-old para-medical student in a bus, the Delhi government on Monday said it would install CCTV cameras inside the buses to ensure safety of women passengers.
Attacking the Congress government, the BJP claimed there is no rule of law in Rajasthan and the incident has put a question mark on the law and order situation of the state.
Bilkis Bano was gangraped in March, 2002, while she was pregnant.
