Source:- indiatoday.intoday.in Students from the Jawaharlal Nehru Universty, Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia held a protest at Bihar Bhavan in New Delhi’s Chanakyapuri area against the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old Dalit student in Hajipur, Bihar. The ‘Justice for Dika’ protests were held under the banner of All India Students Association and
Source:- indiatoday.intoday.in JAIPUR: Former Rajasthan minister Babu Lal Nagar was acquitted of rape charges by the district and sessions court in Jaipur on Monday. The court of additional district judge (Jaipur district) Prahlad Rai Sharma pronounced the judgment in a courtroom packed by Nagar supporters. “The court acquitted Nagar giving him benefit of doubt. We
Source:- firstpost.com The Uttar Pradesh government has failed to make timely investigation and prosecute the seven cases of gang-rape filed following the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots and deliver justice, Amnesty International India said in a press release published on Thursday. The briefing furnishes the details of seven Muslim women who came forward after the September 2013
Source:- hindustantimes.com Nine persons were acquitted by a Delhi court in the infamous gangrape of a 24-year-old MBA student in 2009 when she was returning from a Noida mall with her friend. According to Pradeep Sharma, who was representing one of the accused, special judge Shail Jain acquitted the accused due to lack of evidence.
Source:- indiatimes.com KOCHI: The concept that having sex with a woman without her consent amounts to rape has changed recently. As the law stands now, insertion of any object or body part into the vagina would amount to rape. An amendment was brought to IPC Section 375 (rape). As per sub-section 2 of Section 375,
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
Source:- news18.com Thiruvananthapuram: A total of 16,960 cases of crime against women and children, including 2,568 rapes, have been reported in the last one year in Kerala. The state was recently rocked by the alleged abduction and harassment of a noted South Indian actress by a gang near Kochi. According to the state police’s provisional
Source:- hindustantimes.com The Gaya rape case in which a minor, class 10 student, of a private school was brutally assaulted allegedly by four youths and later abandoned in a roadside bush, took a new turn with the victim and her parents charging the police and the school management on Saturday, with hatching a conspiracy to
Source:- bbc.com Bhanwari Devi is an unlikely heroine. Nearly a quarter of a century after the illiterate, low-caste woman was allegedly gang-raped by her high-caste neighbours in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, she refuses to give up her fight for justice. It was her case that resulted in the Indian Supreme Court formulating guidelines
Source:- thenewsminute.com In a significant judgement, the Hyderabad High Court acquitted P Satyam Babu, who had spent many years in jail, for the rape and murder of Ayesha Meera, a 17-year-old pharmacy student in Vijayawada. The murder took place in 2007, and Satyam Babu was convicted by a Vijayawada women’s special sessions court in 2010, and
