Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court pulled up the defence ministry and Manipur government for their alleged inaction in a case involving a 15-year-old girl, who committed suicide after allegedly being raped by army personnel in October 2003. A bench headed by justice MB Lokur was hearing the petition related to extra-judicial killings in Manipur. Incidents
Source – khaleejtimes.com The decision to uphold the death penalty for the four accused in the 2012 Delhi gang rape has “blinded the world yet again”. These are the sentiments of Leslee Udwin, director of the controversial 2015 documentary, ‘India’s Daughter’. Speaking to Khaleej Times from her home in London, Udwin said now the death penalty is handed down for
Source – hindustantimes The Delhi High Court on Monday said marital rape was a “serious issue” which had notoriously become a “part of the culture”. A division bench of acting chief justice Gita Mittal and justice C Hari Shankar, hearing a PIL against the penal code provision that protects husbands from being tried for the rape
Source – india.com Chandigarh/Amritsar, May 23 (IANS) A young woman, who claimed to be an IT professional, has been arrested in Punjab’s Amritsar city after her latest complaint of having being raped by a hotel executive turned out to be false, police said on Tuesday. The woman has been booked for extortion. Police officials said that
Souce:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com MUMBAI: A case of rape against a trustee and teacher of an international school has been registered in a police station in the western suburbs. The case was registered on May 18 after the mother of one of the two victims, both three-yearolds, saw bruises on the child’s private parts. A trustee and
Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Proving that a girl had been raped by her uncle, two years after the crime, would have been very difficult, but a Delhi trial court relied on the child’s crayon sketches to convict the accused and award him five years in jail. The girl, who is 10 now and studies in
Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com BAREILLY: In bizarre turn of events, a bride called off her wedding on the day she was to tie the knot after learning that her would-be groom is an accused in a rape case. She said she did not want to spend her entire like with someone who was accused of outraging a
Source – indianexpress.com The Punjab and Haryana High Court has suspended the sentences of three former law students convicted of gangrape and blackmail while concluding that the victim’s statement reveals a story of “misadventure stemming from a promiscuous attitude and a voyeuristic mind”. The division bench also ordered a compensation of Rs 10 lakh for
Source – news18.com New Delhi: Courts cannot shut rape and murder cases even if victims or families of the victims agree to settle disputes with the accused, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. Economic fraud having ramifications on State’s economy, the Court added, cannot be closed. A bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra
Source – indiatvnews.com Punjab and Haryana High Court will today hear an appeal by Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh against his conviction in the rape cases along with the petitions filed by two victims who have sought life imprisonment for the jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief. Ram Rahim has sought directions for setting aside the August 25
