Convicted habitual rapists in Pakistan could be chemically castrated after President Arif Alvi on Tuesday approved a new anti-rape ordinance.
The legislation will be introduced in the next session of the state Assembly, said Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.
The Madhya Pradesh Assembly had unanimously passed a Bill last year awarding death penalty to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 and below.
The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that the process to amend the penal law to introduce death penalty to those convicted of sexually abusing children up to 12 years of age has been initiated.
A young woman -- gang raped by four persons in Bhopal -- on Sunday demanded that the culprits should be hanged in public for their crime and flayed the police for its "unhelpful" attitude in the whole affair.
Uma Bharti on Tuesday said that she had got rapists tortured during her reign as the CM of Madhya Pradesh in front of the survivors and made them watch so they could have some closure.
On the back foot after the convict in the murder and rape of Pallavi Purkayasta jumped parole, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided against its grant to rapists and murderers among other convicts.
The latest government statistics have made a lamentable revelation about rapes in India, and particularly Uttar Pradesh.
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New Delhi: Terming rapists a "menace to the civilized society" and calling for them to "mercilessly and inexorably punished" in the severest terms, the Delhi High Court has refused to lessen the punishment of the
New Delhi: The Indian diaspora was shaken by the brutal gangrape of a young woman on Dec 16, 2012, and upset over the continuing rapes taking place in the national capital and elsewhere but made
Bangalore, Jan 16: Karnataka Government is contemplating amending laws to ensure that rapists do not get bail and police have been directed to book them under Goondas Act and take steps to prevent atrocities, including
New Delhi, Jan 7:Spiritual leader Asaram Bapu was Monday reported as saying that the Delhi gang-rape victim should have called her culprits brothers and recited the Saraswati mantra, provoking both the ruling Congress and the
New Delhi, Dec 28: The government said Thursday it was planning to compile a data base of all rape convicts across the country and post their photographs, names and addresses on a website.Minister of State
Mainpuri, Dec 26: Prominent Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan has demanded that rapists should be "stoned" to death in public as per Islamic law, saying capital punishment is much less for such a heinous
Patna, Dec 24: Joining the growing clamour to award death penalty to perpetrators of rape, RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav today said his party would advocate for capital punishment for rapists in the Delhi gang
New Delhi, Dec 20: Demanding enactment of stringent laws to deter people from committing crimes like rape, the National Commission for Women (NCW) today favoured capital punishment for perpetrators and even suggested that they should
New Delhi, Dec 18: Condemning the gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in the capital, Bollywood star Salman Khan Tuesday said rapists should be hanged."In my view, there should be a death sentence for all
New Delhi, Dec 3: A Delhi court today sent two persons, accused of raping a 30-year-old call centre employee last week after abducting her from Dhaula Kuan area, to Tihar Jail till Monday under judicial
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