Lucknow: A new variety of mango, harvested at Uttar Pradesh's famous mango centre Malihabad, has been named Nirbhaya after the 23-year-old Delhi girl who was brutally gangraped on December 16, 2012 and died of her injuries two weeks later.
The new variety, its grower Kaleemullah Khan said, was his way of honouring the bravery and spirit of the young physiotherapist, whose rape and death galvanised the entire nation.
Kaleemullah Khan, who has been awarded with a Padma Shri, said he had planted the tree three years ago and was surprised that it bore fruit in such a short span. This year, he added, the mangoes were 'slightly small' but the next harvest would be hopefully be normal.
Kaleemullah Khan, 57, is a venerated mango grower and has his name registered in the Limca Book of World Records for growing 300 varieties of mangoes on a single tree. In 1999, he grew 54 varieties of mangoes on a single tree and gifted the tree to the president. This tree still finds place in the Mughal Gardens at the sprawling Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi....
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09:33 AM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: A devastated mother of the Delhi braveheart on Friday made fervent pleas for justice for her daughter before a Special court trying four men accused in the case. The lawyer for one of the accused did not cross-examine her saying she is already in deep pain. The mother of the 23-year-old paramedical student, who was gangraped and assaulted in a moving bus, deposed before the court of Additional...
07:00 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The mother of the Delhi braveheart will appear before the fast track court on Friday to depose as a prosecution witness. Meanwhile, the Tihar Jail Superintendent and medical officer also submitted their reports to Additional Session Judge Yogesh Khanna on the health condition of accused Vinay Sharma, who was admitted to the hospital following high fever. The accused is now admitted to Lok Nayak Hospital and receiving medical...
11:05 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: In a twist to the December 16 gangrape case, sources say that the records of the bus in which the incident took place have been destroyed. However, sources said that the Crime Branch is checking if this is a periodic cleansing undertaken by the transport department. Sources add that the Crime Branch has some evidence against the Transport Department officials who gave clearance to the bus owner Dinesh...
12:08 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court said on Friday that the interview, which the Delhi braveheart's friend gave to a TV news channel, could not be used as evidence in the trial proceedings of the December 16 gangrape case. The apex court set aide the order of the Delhi High Court, where it had allowed the interview to be used as evidence in the case. The male friend of the 23-year-old...
01:37 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Hollywood film 'Epic', a 3D animated adventure comedy, will hit Indian screens May 17, a week before it opens in the US. The Fox Star Studios' fantasy movie is based on William Joyce's book 'The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs'. It has voiceovers by Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Pitbull, Steven Tyler and Beyonce Knowles. After the success of the studio's...
05:52 PM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: The doctors, who were part of the medical team attending to the Delhi braveheart, told a fast-track court in New Delhi on Friday that the girl was shifted to a Singapore hospital to provide her with best possible treatment and not because she had died as alleged by the accused. The doctors' response came on the allegation by defence counsel of two accused in the case that the...
11:31 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: Mukesh, an accused in the December 16, 2012 gangrape, on Saturday changed his counsel ML Sharma who failed to appear in a fast track court in New Delhi for the fourth successive hearing. Advocate Sharma has been replaced by advocate Rajeev Jain, appointed as an amicus curiae to assist the court April 18, after the accused moved an application. Mukesh asked Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna he wanted...
06:48 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down the plea of a December 16 gangrape accused to shift the trial outside Delhi but it agreed to hear his plea for moving him out of Tihar jail for allegedly being tortured there. "We are issuing notice on the limited prayer of shifting him to another jail," a bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir said. The court passed the order...
08:33 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: Two of the accused in the Delhi gangrape case on Thursday claimed before a Special court that they were not in the bus in which a 23-year-old girl was brutally assaulted and raped by six persons on December 16 night. Accused Vinay Sharma in his application before Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna claimed he, along with co-accused Pawan Gupta, were not present in the bus in which the...
08:06 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: One of the four adult accused in the December 16 gangrape case on Thursday alleged before a special court that he is receiving life threats in Tihar jail from a police constable who is continuously abusing him. After being permitted by the court to speak, Akshay Singh, his voice quivering with emotion, told Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Yogesh Khanna that a police constable was threatening to kill him...
09:06 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: Defence counsel in the December 16, 2012 gangrape case on Wednesday cross-examined an Air India (AI) official posted at the IGI cargo terminal who received the coffin carrying the victim's body. Cross-examined by counsel of accused Mukesh, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta, the official denied their claim that the death certificate and other documents accompanying the victim's body, which was flown in from Singapore, were manipulated. The AI...
03:33 AM, Apr 04, 2013
A witness in the December 16 gangrape case on Wednesday denied before a special court the claim of an accused that the death certificate and other relevant documents accompanying the victim's body, which was flown in from Singapore, were manipulated. "I (prosecution witness) had seen the original passport of the victim. I had not seen the dates on the passport. I can not comment on the contents of the document,"...
06:30 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The family of eight security personnel, who died in the 2001 Parliament attack, on Saturday took back the gallantry medals, which they had returned in 2006, to protest against delay in the execution of Afzal Guru. The families of those who lost their lives in the attack received the medals from President Pranab Mukherjee. ...
03:55 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Proceedings in the Delhi gangrape case on Monday was adjourned for an hour when one of the accused could not be brought to the fast track court hearing the matter as as he was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital for chest pain. ...
03:55 PM, Mar 25, 2013
A surgeon, who had operated upon the Delhi braveheart who died after the brutal gangrape and assault on December 16, on Saturday recorded his statement in a fast-track court trying the case behind closed doors. Doctor Raj Kumar Chejara, a surgeon from the Safdarjung Hospital, recorded his statement as a prosecution witness in the court of Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna. ...
07:31 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The family of the Delhi gangrape victim has turned down an offer from the city's Sai Institute to return the fees charged from her, saying the amount should be used to help poor and needy students. ...
11:06 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Railways is likely to name one of the new trains announced on Wednesday by Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal after the Delhi braveheart. ...
01:28 AM, Mar 14, 2013
The post-mortem report of the main accused in the Delhi gangrape case, Ram Singh, will be conducted on Tuesday. Ram Singh was found dead in his cell in Tihar jail on Monday at 5.00 am with officials suspecting it to be a case of suicide. Ram Singh was found hanging in his cell and he had used a piece of cloth that he had reportedly torn off from a rug...
08:24 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Vimla Mehra, DG Prisons, Tihar jail refused to comment on the incident and said it would be premature to disclose anything related to the case. ...
02:56 PM, Mar 11, 2013
