New Delhi: Rapists should be awarded a minimum sentence of 7 years which can be reduced only in special circumstances, the Supreme Court has ruled ticking off the Rajasthan High Court for reducing the punishment of two convicts in a rape case. "Such an order is violative of the mandatory requirement of law and has defeated the legislative mandate. Deciding the case in such a casual manner reduces the criminal...
07:28 PM, May 22, 2012
Lille: French prosecutors said on Monday they had opened an inquiry into allegations of gangrape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three friends, as part of an investigation into his ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille. The former IMF chief is under formal investigation over whether he was aware he was dealing with prostitutes and pimps when attending sex parties in Lille, Paris and Washington in...
07:38 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: During her interaction with Kolkata's students and others on CNN-IBN, West Bengal Chief Minister bristled at every question that brought up the issue of intolerance and insensitive statements from the authorities. She branded most of these as 'Maoist' or 'CPI(M)' questions. However, two specific questions incensed her to a point where she openly accused the questioners " both of them university students " of being 'Maoists' and 'CPI(M)...
02:23 PM, May 20, 2012
Chandigarh: A first year girl student of law at Haryana's all-women university, Bhagat Phool Singh Women's University, near Sonipat town has been hospitalised after alleged gangrape by four youths, police said on Friday. The police registered a case of gangrape on Friday against the youth whom the girl named in her complaint. The girl resides in one of the girls' hostels on the campus. In her complaint to the police,...
07:50 PM, May 18, 2012
Shimla: A 22-year-old Australian tourist has filed a police complaint against a Chandigarh youth, stating that he had raped her in a guest house at Kasol in Kullu district, 220 km from Shimla. In her complaint, police said, the victim alleged that the youth hailing from Chandigarh gave her some sedative and took her to Green Valley guest house where he raped her on Saturday night. On Sunday morning, he...
11:45 PM, May 14, 2012
Patna: A teenager, who was the main witness in his mother's rape case, was burnt alive in Nawada district Sunday, police said. Chintu Kumar, 17, was set on fire by the rape accused in Garabigha village under Narhat police station, 150 km from here, a police officer, who did not want to be named, said. Chintu's mother was gangraped in 2006 by five men of her village, and he was...
08:31 AM, May 14, 2012
Cuttack: Prima facie criminal liability has been established against a dismissed police inspector in the rape of a 19-year-old girl at Pipli in November 2011, police on Wednesday informed the Orissa High Court. Filing an affidavit, crime branch DSP Ramesh Chandra Sethy said that inspector Amulya Kumar Champatiray, who was officiating as inspector-in-charge of Pipili police station in Puri district at the time of the incident, had wilfully neglected an...
01:46 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: There is no proposal to set up special courts for trial of rape cases, but states are being impressed upon to probe such crimes more efficiently by deputing best officers, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday. "At present, there is no proposal under consideration," he said in the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour when asked if the government proposes to set up special courts to ensure speedy...
01:31 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking incident in the NCR, a girl was allegedly raped by two men in a Scorpio car in the basement of Mahagun mall in the Delhi suburb of Vaishali in Ghaziabad. Police said that one person has been arrested in the case. The incident took place between 4 am and 5 am on Friday morning. Reportedly, the girl was introduced to the men at a party....
01:05 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday put an interim stay on criminal proceedings against film producer Madhur Bhandarkar in the Preeti Jain rape case. In July 2004, aspiring actor Preeti Jain had lodged a complaint alleging that Bhandarkar had raped her several times between 1999 and 2004 under the pretext of marrying her and casting her as actress in his movies. A Mumbai metropolitan court had, in September, 2011,...
02:13 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Kolkata: Questions are still being asked about the police officer's transfer by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The big question is whether there is more to the transfer of top woman police officer Damayanti Sen than mere reshuffling. It's the biggest police shake-up since Mamata Banerjee came to power. Sixty IPS officers have been transferred across lines but one name has baffled all, Damayanti Sen, the first woman top...
11:04 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Kolkata: Faced with criticism over transfer of senior IPS officer Damayanti Sen, who had differed with Mamata Banerjee on the genuineness of the Park Street rape case, the West Bengal Chief Minister on Thursday defended the decision saying it was a prerogative of the government. Banerjee, without referring to the transfer of Sen, the former Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), said, "It is the prerogative of my government to get...
09:16 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: IPS officer Damayanti Sen, who ruffled a few feathers including that of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the infamous Park Street rape case in February, was shunted out from the city on Wednesday. In what is being seen as a low-profile posting, she was transferred as DIG, Training, of Barrackpore Police Training School. Sen, as Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime, had reportedly "defied" Mamata Banerjee by...
05:10 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Howrah: Two men have been sent to police custody by a local court in West Bengal's Howrah for allegedly raping a newly-married woman in connivance with her own husband who is absconding. "Kartik Das and Raju Prasad were sent to custody by the court for their involvement in gang-raping a 19-year-old married woman. Her husband, who is suspected to have facilitated the crime, is absconding," Howrah Deputy Commissioner of Police...
04:49 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Cuttack: The condition of the Pipili rape victim, who is on life support system for the past 24 hours, is showing little improvement after developing further complications, doctors attending on her said on Tuesday. A team of senior doctors of SCB medical college and hospital in Cuttack are attending on the 19-year-old Dalit girl, under treatment in "semi-comatose" state since January 11. She developed breathing problems on Monday evening. Doctors...
10:33 PM, Mar 20, 2012
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