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
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
Kolkata: Under fire for the deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal, it seems the Mamata Banerjee government now feels that shutting down nightclubs would prevent rapes in the state. Ironically, this move by the Mamata government is supposedly to keep a tab on the deteriorating law and order situation in the state. The excise department has decided not to issue Late Closure Licenses (LCL) for next month. The...
08:24 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Kolkata: After being attacked by the Opposition, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee is now facing criticism from her own party members. Singer and Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman spoke out against the numerous rape incidents reported across the state. "I feel very very concerned over one rape after the other," he said. "What's going on in Mamata Banerjee's mind, I don't know, I find this strange, specially the Park...
10:22 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Six rape cases have been reported so far in 2012 in West Bengal. ...
11:25 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Kolkata: Despite West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's tall claims, another rape case has been reported in Bankura district of the state. An 18-year-old hearing impaired patient was allegedly raped by an attending doctor at the government-run Bankura Medical College and Hospital late Monday evening. The CID and the state Health Department are probing the charges, but no arrests have been made so far. "They took my daughter for examination...
10:43 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: Think ten times before you call Delhi and NCR 'the most unsafe place for women under the sun' again. Delhi and the NCR is definitely the most unsafe place for women in India. But a comparison of the 2007 data (as that is the latest available from the National Crime Records Bureau) suggests that Delhi with 3.57 rapes per 1,00,000 people fared pretty well as compared to the...
07:52 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Bhopal The heartland of India Madhya Pradesh is unsafe for women -figures of rapes and deaths of women in the state during the last three years presented in the state assembly by Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta reveal an alarming picture. The minister, in a written reply to legislator Praduman Singh Tomar during the ongoing assembly session, informed that 9,926 women have been raped in the state during the last...
02:24 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Andhra Pradesh DGP said that one of the reasons for rise in rape cases is the provocative clothes worn by women. ...
11:52 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that in rape cases there is no need for corroboration and conviction can be imposed on the sole statement of the victim, as her testimony cannot be looked at with suspicion. "It is a trite law that a woman, who is the victim of sexual assault, is not an accomplice to the crime but is a victim of another person's lust. The prosecutrix...
11:21 PM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: After the first SlutWalk in the capital on Sunday, the campaign will move to Mumbai, says controversial model Poonam Pandey and that she will lead it. "Full support to Slut Walk in Delhi! n Soon u will see me heading the Walk Ahead in Mumbai... wish i was der at Delhi today for the slut walk," Poonam posted on micro-blogging site Twitter. After becoming a sensation in Toronto...
04:42 PM, Jul 31, 2011
New Delhi: Another rape and murder was reported from UP - this time from Varanasi - the girl was found with her throat slit. The post mortem report confirmed that she was raped before being murdered. Police is yet to confirm the identity of the girl but the she was last spotted with two men near a city market. Police have also recovered a saw from the crime scene and...
01:21 PM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: After days of sustained Opposition attack on the worsening law and order situation in the state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on on Tuesday spoke out. She has set a timeframe for investigations into the alleged rapes and promised fast tracking of cases. Hit by Opposition fire over the jump in rape and murders in Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati said she will set up fast-track courts where cases will...
09:03 PM, Jun 21, 2011
Lucknow: Taking suo motu cognisance of rape cases in different districts of Uttar Pradesh, the State Human Rights Commission has sought a reply from the government and the police. SHRC member Justice Vishnu Sahai has issued notice to the chief secretary, principal secretary, home, director general of police and SP and SSPs of districts where rape cases have taken place in the last few days, official sources said on Tuesday....
12:21 PM, Jun 21, 2011
New Delhi: With as many as six cases of rape reported in just two days, the Mayawati administration is rattled. Ahead of the Assembly elections in the state early next year, the Opposition, led by the Congress is driving home the message that women are unsafe under Chief Minister Mayawati and law and order has worsened. They are demanding that Mayawati must resign. On June 19, the body of a...
08:14 PM, Jun 20, 2011
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