The Delhi high court on Thursday asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to take down his social media post which revealed the identity of a minor Dalit girl, raped and murdered in 2021, so that the child's identity is protected worldwide.
A 22-year-old man was on Thursday sentenced to death by a local court for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl.
Basant Soren, the brother of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has given an awkward statement over his absence from the state during the recent political crisis.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant bail to self-styled godman Asaram Bapu on health grounds in Jodhpur rape case as his medical condition was found to be stable.
The police on Friday claimed to have arrested 'a local Bharatiya Janata Party leader' along with 10 others on charges of running a sex racket in a hotel in West Bengal's Howrah district, while the state's main opposition party denied any association with the accused individuals.
The girl was shifted to Delhi's Safdarjung hospital after her condition deteriorated and she died on Monday.
All the officials, suspended with immediate effect, have been charged with "failure to take adequate legal action" with regard to "assault.
Karnataka legislative standing committee's recommendation seeking a ban on mobile phones to prevent rapes finds few takers, including state Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023 mark a significant step towards empowering Indian citizens and aim to create a more accessible, supportive and efficient justice system for everyone, official sources said.
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.
It took nearly nine months for the Bihar police to file an FIR against four accused for the allegedly gang-rape of a minor girl in Madhepura district.
The DCW chief had been demanding death penalty for rape of minors and setting up of fast-track courts across the country to try rape cases, along with other demands.
Following are the key points of the three criminal law bills, that were passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday and seek to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Evidence Act.
Days after sentencing four men to life term for brutalising a telephone operator in Shakti Mills compound in Mumbai, a local court on Monday framed fresh charges against the three common convicts in the 2013 photojournalist gang rape case.
The court also said that under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, even intermediaries like social media platforms Google, Facebook and Yahoo could be held liable for penal action for display and circulation of photos and name of the victim by others.
The Mumbai police on Friday moved closer to nailing the five accused arrested in the photojournalist's gang rape case with forensic tests confirming that DNA samples found on the victim matched with those of the suspects.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday delivered a split verdict on the issue of criminalisation of marital rape and granted leave to the parties to file an appeal before the Supreme Court.
The hearing on Bilkis Bano's plea challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the gang-rape case by the Gujarat government, could not be held in the Supreme Court on Tuesday as the judges concerned were hearing a matter related to passive euthanasia as part of a five-judge Constitution bench.
'The death penalty exists in India for murderers. Is it a deterrent and does it stop murders?'
A CBI team visited the spot of incident on Friday.
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'.
The offence carries punishment of minimum 10 years and maximum of life imprisonment.
Kamla Nagar police station in-charge Vijay Sisodia on Wednesday said an inquiry is underway to find out how the girl got sleeping pills in the shelter home.
'I'm talking about that predator in your house, and how one should protect one's children from him.'
Terming the rape and murder of a "defenceless" minor girl as the "ultimate insult to womanhood", the Bombay high court on Friday confirmed the death penalty awarded to a 22-year-old youth after it held that the case fell under the "rarest of rare" category.
The girl's mother alleged that her daughter was "inappropriately touched" by a classmate.
Here is the chronology of events in the Nirbhaya case.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the family of the Kathua rape victim should get justice.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has asserted that the recent attacks on churches and rape of a nun were not political or communal issues but law and order problems.
Vishakha, a student in a Sarvodaya Public School in a Uttar Pradesh village, was lured by the accused. Her body was later found in a sugarcane field.
The support for the eight-year-old girl was growing with politicians, cutting across party lines, seeking justice for her.
Special judge Dharmesh Sharma, who is conducting trial of the cases, shall record her testimony.
The HC is expected to render verdict over the release of the juvenile convict in the Delhi gang-rape case.
"Had she called up the police, she could have been saved," Home Minister Ali told ANI.
The court referred the NCRB data and said 38,947 women were raped in India in 2016. "What is to be done? Girls and women are getting raped left, right and centre," the bench said."
The development comes a day after senior politicians from different opposition parties demanded a free and fair probe into the accident of the Unnao rape survivor and her family.
"Collective conscience of the society shaken. In our society, minor girls are worshipped as goddess," the POCSO court said.
A group of locals set fire to Kaliaganj police station in West Bengal's Uttar Dinajpur district on Tuesday to protest against the death of a teenage girl whose body was found in a canal last week.
Lonina used the Periscope app to livestream the assault, said to have occurred on February 27 in the city of Colombus.
While Christians in Ranaghat insist that ghar wapsi was behind the robbery and rape of a nun at a local convent, the West Bengal CID believes a gang of Bangladeshis was behind the robbery and rape.
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