Tag: rape case

SC asks Azam Khan to apologise for comments on rape case

Source: thehindu The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan to unconditionally apologise for his controversial remarks about the Bulandshahr gang-rape case. He had allegedly said that the case was a “political conspiracy” against his ruling Samajwadi Party. Noting that “words once spoken cannot be re-called,” a Bench led by Justice Dipak

Gaya minor’s rape case raises many questions

Source:- hindustantimes.com Many questions continue to agitate people as the Gaya police claimed to have almost solved the sensational rape case, in which a minor girl of class 10 was brutally assaulted and her modesty outraged last Monday. Physically-challenged Abhinay alias Mantu Yadav, the main accused, has claimed to have entered into a sexual relationship

Child law test in rape case

Source:- telegraphindia.com New Delhi, March 2: The Supreme Court today said it would refer to a medical board a unique case of whether a 38-year-old cerebral palsy-affected rape victim could be considered a “child” because of her mental condition to determine adequate compensation. The first such case to have come up for consideration before the

Mother-son get jail term in rape case

Source – intoday.in Thane, Apr 19 (PTI) A local court has sentenced a 24-year-old man to 15 years rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl and awarded ten years jail term to his mother for abetting the crime. District judge Mridula V K Bhatia convicted Sushant Dubey, owner of a driving school here, and his mother

Pune BPO employee rape case: President Mukherjee rejects mercy plea of duo convicted in 2007

Source:- financialexpress.com President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy petition of Purushottam Borate and Pradeep Kokade convicted in the 2007 Jyotikumari murder and rape case. The two men are convicted of abducting, raping and murdering BPO employee Jyotikumari in Pune in 2007. As per a statement issued by the President’s Secretariat, the mercy plea was