Odisha registered 1,865 rape cases and over 1,000 murders in 9 months
India | November 25, 2019 16:04 ISTSome 2,502 rape cases were registered in 2018 including 1,430 cases of sexual assault against minor girls, an average of four cases each day.
Some 2,502 rape cases were registered in 2018 including 1,430 cases of sexual assault against minor girls, an average of four cases each day.
In a beastly incident, a youth raped and killed a nine- month old baby in Telangana's Hanmakonda town, triggering massive protests by people who demanded that the guilty be hanged publicly.
Under an amendment to section 376 (e) of the IPC, repeat offenders in rape cases faced life imprisonment or a death penalty. The amendment was made after the gangrape of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi in 2012.
The Department of Justice had informed the Cabinet Secretary on June 14 that the draft is ready and awaiting approval of the Law Minister.
Mallika Sherawat said that a land that was associated with Mahatma Gandhi has now become a land of gang rapists.
Anushka Sharma extended her '1000 per cent' support to the ordinance providing death penalty and stringent punishment for rape of girls below 12.
BJP leader Santosh Gangwar makes a controversial statement on rape cases sparks row
“If such incidents of rape with girls below 12 prove to be true, we will make an act of capital punishment for the accused in this session”, Khattar said.
In over 96 per cent of rape cases in the national capital, the victim and the accused are known to each other, according to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik.
India is among the lowest four countries in terms of number of rapes but almost every incident is reported by the media, Union minister Maneka Gandhi said on Monday.
In a move to check the rising incidents of rape cases in the national capital, police officials are taking adequate steps to bolster the security surveillance in Metro stations, especially during the late hours.For the
New Delhi: The Centre has urged chief justices of high courts to set up fast track courts to deal with pending rape cases and monitor their progress. Since setting up of fast track courts is
Muzaffarnagar: Two persons have been arrested in connection with a gang-rape case during last year clashes here, taking the total number of those arrested in riot-related rape cases to 21.Roopesh and Amar Deep, who were
Kolkata: After Tapas Pal, another Trinamool leader has sparked a controversy by his remark that as 'long as the world exists, rape will be there', inviting strong condemnation from the opposition and women rights groups.“Rapes
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned self-styled godman Nithyananda's reluctance to undergo potency test in a 2010 rape case and the ‘delay' by the police in conducting it, saying such examinations were necessary
New Delhi: India figures third among top 10 countries where highest number of rape have taken place in 2010 while in cases of murder, the country comes second in 2012. Minister of State for Home
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India P.Sathasivam on Monday expressed unhappiness on the declining of conviction rate in rape cases and emphasized that women judicial officials can play a major role in conducting trial in
Mumbai: Five men were today held guilty of gangrape of two women in the abandoned Shakti Mills compound here last year by a sessions court here.The court will pronounce the quantum of punishment tomorrow.A total
Kolkata: A mentally challenged woman was allegedly raped by a miscreant in an ATM in West Bengal's Howrah district early Wednesday, police said.The incident happened in the Nazirganj area. The accused has been arrested, a
Mumbai : Arguments in the Shakti Mill telephone operator gang rape case will continue today even as the defence maintained that the accused are being falsely implicated.“The argument is likely to continue tomorrow as well,”
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