The bench also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to pay Rs five lakh to the lawyer, who is in a critical condition.
The fourth convict, Pawan Gupta, has not filed a curative petition, which he still can if he chooses.
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On January 20, the apex court had rejected the plea by Pawan who had challenged the Delhi high court's order dismissing his juvenility claim.
Justice Pushpa Ganediwala recently acquitted a man accused of groping a 12-year-old girl's breast because he did not make skin-to-skin contact and days earlier, ruled that holding the hands of a five-year-old girl and unzipping the trousers do not amount to "sexual assault" under the POCSO Act.
Chandrapal, when approached by mediapersons, said, "False allegations have been levelled against me. I went to Police Lines to voluntarily deposit my service pistol. I was arrested there. I was told my name is there in the FIR." He clarified that he was not absconding or hiding along with the minister. "I did not even have any telephonic conversation with him (Prajapati)," he said.
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Parrikar claimed that the denial of ticket to him is similar to the 1994 situation when attempts were made to throw his father out of the party.
The modern world will not accommodate bigotry of the sort India is showing the world today, argues Aakar Patel.
'The political leadership is not realising that it is dividing the uniform on the lines of religion.' 'This will lead to anarchy.'
The apex court will on Monday take a call on moving the woman and her lawyer to AIIMS in Delhi, it said.
The Congress president spoke of how Modi had hosted Xi in his home state Gujarat and the Chinese troops made an incursion into Indian territory.
'A climate of impunity is created when the fascistic hate-mongers reckon they can get away with anything because 'this is our regime' and this is going to be a 'Hindu Rashtra'.'
The Jammu and Kashmir Police recently arrested five suspected "white-collar jihadis" who were behind a campaign to spread falsehood about the sovereignty of the country.
Maintaining that 'jungle raj' prevailed in the Capital, Kejriwal called for handing over law and order to his dispensation for one year.
An official said that the search operation turned into an encounter after terrorists fired upon the forces.
'Governments forget that no matter how cunning they are, eventually they cannot ride on anarchy,' says Shuma Raha.
The Congress general secretary was joined by leaders like Ahmed Patel, A K Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Randeep Singh Surjewala, besides hundreds of party workers at the India Gate on Monday in a show of solidarity with the students from Jamia Millia Islamia and several other universities across the country protesting the contentious amended citizenship law.
Making a strong pitch for handing over Delhi police control to city government, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday sought a meeting with the prime minister and lt governor in the wake of gangrape of two minor girls in Delhi.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a minor, for restraining the media from covering the sexual assault case against him.
Self-styled 'godman' Asaram Bapu, who is in jail since September 2013 for allegedly raping a minor, was on Saturday denied bail by a court in Jodhpur, the sixth time his plea for relief has been turned down.
The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine the constitutional validity of the provision giving the definition of juvenile in the Juvenile Justice Act, which treats a person as a minor till he attains the age of 18 years.
One of the two constables on the run after allegedly raping a minor inside a police station premises in Badaun was arrested in Bareilly on Tuesday when he was about to board a Delhi-bound train and subsequently sent to judicial custody for 14 days.
The family of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Monday termed the Juvenile Justice Board's decision of ruling the sixth accused in the case as minor as unfortunate and said that they would challenge it in court. "The family would consult legal experts and challenge the matter in the relevant court," the brother of the girl told PTI over the phone from Delhi.
In a judgment passed on January 19, the Bombay high court has said groping a minor's breast without 'skin-to-skin contact' cannot be termed sexual assault as defined under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The prime minister also said if there is a 'kabaristaan' (graveyard), there should be a 'shamshaan' (cremation ground) too.
Three government doctors were on Tuesday charged of destroying evidence through manipulation of post-mortem report in the case of rape and strangulation of 14-year-old Sonam inside the premises of Nighasan police station in Lakhimpur-Kheri district, about 170 km from Lucknow, on June 10.
Following is the chronology of events in the sensational 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case in which four death row convicts were hanged Friday morning.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir said that interference in Juvenile Justice Act is not necessary and dismissed a batch of PILs which were filed in the aftermath of the December 16 brutal gangrape and murder case in which a minor was also allegedly involved.
A court in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday remanded the hostel warden-cum-teacher, who allegedly raped 14 minor girls of a private school at remote Likabali in west district of Arunachal Pradesh, to 14 days police custody.
The judge passed the order on the plea by the convicts seeking adjournment of the executions 'sine die'. The four were scheduled to be hanged on February 1 at 6 am. This is for the second time that the execution of the death warrants has been deferred.
The brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old Bakerwal girl has polarised the normally peaceful town of Jammu, with the local Bar association calling for a bandh against what it termed the "targeting of minority Dogras" while the state police had lodged a case against lawyers who allegedly tried to prevent it from filing a chargesheet against the accused.
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Amid public outrage over a spate of sexual assaults on minor girls, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah warned managements that permission granted to their schools would be revoked and criminal cases booked against them if they violate guidelines for safety of children.
In the unlikely event of the BJP-NDA losing all five states going to the polls in February-March, the Presidential electoral college numbers could be significantly altered, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
A local court in Banda on Friday extended the judicial remand alleged rapist MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi by 14 days.
The Bill, which was already approved by the Rajya Sabha, defines child pornography, making it punishable.
'This was Indian land the PLA advanced on and occupied.' 'The Chinese then 'negotiated' a pullback of their troops a small distance on Indian territory even as Indian jawans draw back further into India from the forward position.' 'An apparently satisfied Indian government says this is a great move for peace! How great is that for China!'
'You want to create a law to give the death penalty to those who kill cows.' 'But you don't want to give the death penalty to the man who rapes an 8-month-old baby.'
Congress accuses Centre of 'protecting' state BJP chief's son.
