The CPI(M) has sent its recommendations to the three member committee headed by Justice JS Verma to suggest amendments in laws for faster justice and enhanced punishment in cases of sexual assault. The party has recommended a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the entire life of a person in cases of aggravated sexual assault. The party has also said 'no' to death penalty, chemical castration or further lowering the...
05:14 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday met Director Generals of Police and Home Secretaries from all the states over providing more security to women. Several aspects of crimes against women were discussed at the meeting in the national capital. ...
06:10 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Opposing the demand for death penalty for rapists, Khaps in Haryana on Sunday said no law should be introduced in a hurry which can be misused. Speaking at a village in Hisar, Khap leader Sube Singh said that the authorities should not be carried away by emotions in the wake of the public protests over the gangrape issue and demand for death penalty for rapists. ...
12:53 AM, Dec 31, 2012
Singapore on Sunday said it would cite the "heartbreaking case" of the 23-year-old Delhi braveheart as an example to reject demands for abolition of death penalty in the city state. In a Facebook post, Singapore's Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs K Shanmugam said people were "sickened" by the horrific gangrape and her subsequent death here. ...
06:39 PM, Dec 30, 2012
The Director General of Police, Uttar Pradesh has reportedly written a letter to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, demanding death penalty for rapists. In his letter, DGP AC Sharma said that rape must be treated as a rarest of rare crime and be dealt with accordingly. ...
12:30 PM, Dec 28, 2012
The father of the Delhi gangrape survivor has appealed for calm and has said that her daughter's tormentors deserve death penalty. As the angry protesters continued with their agitation in New Delhi on Sunday, the father of the 23-year-old paramedical student said his daughter is a "fighter" and he is confident she will "overcome all obstacles". ...
08:05 AM, Dec 24, 2012
Two gang-rape accused brought before a Delhi court on Sunday once again repeated their statement that they had committed a horrible crime and "deserved to be hanged". They, however, refused to undergo an identification exercise. ...
01:40 AM, Dec 24, 2012
Renowned actor Kamal Hassan on Sunday said he was ashamed of the gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in Delhi, but was against awarding death penalty to rapists. "I am against the decision to give them capital punishment because it is not the right way to deal a crime with another crime. Capital punishment itself is a judicially assisted murder," he said. ...
01:09 AM, Dec 24, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma on Thursday yet again embarrassed his party with his remark that Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru should be spared the death penalty and sentenced to life imprisonment instead. While the Congress played it safe on the remark and refused to comment, Samajwadi Party leader Mohan Singh slammed Beni saying that he was an expert in giving irresponsible statements. Congress leader Ashwini Kumar refused...
02:13 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: Parliamentarians led by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Thursday paid homage to martyrs on the 11th anniversary of the attack on Parliament. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, BJP leader LK Advani, Leaders of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley respectively and other members attended a solemn ceremony held in the...
11:10 AM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: Thursday marks 11 years of the terrorist attack on Parliament that left nine people dead in 2001. Parliamentarians will pay their respects to the security officers, who lost their lives in the 2001 attack. Meanwhile, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that a decision on convict Afzal Guru's mercy petition will be taken after the current Parliament session ends. On Wednesday, the widow of one of the security...
07:30 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Beijing: A Chinese man was on Friday sentenced to death for keeping six women in a dungeon as sex slaves and killing of two of them. The Luoyang Intermediate People's Court in Henan Province convicted 35-year-old Li Hao on charges of murder, rape, organised prostitution, illegal detention and spreading pornography for profit. The court said Li dug the dungeon himself under the basement he bought in Luoyang in August 2009...
09:32 PM, Nov 30, 2012
United Nations: As India executed 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has called on nations who still use the death penalty to abolish the practice. Ban welcomed a UN General Assembly resolution, passed earlier this week, that called on all member states to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolish death penalty. The resolution, passed in the general assembly's Third Committee on Monday,...
09:18 AM, Nov 22, 2012
Mumbai: A slight figure in cargo pants and sneakers and a blue sweatshirt, gun-wielding Ajmal Kasab was the face of the horrific Mumbai terror attack and the key to unravel the conspiracy hatched in Pakistan. The images of Kasab ambling cockily--a backpack on his shoulders and an AK-47 dangling carelessly--captured on camera at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus(CST) on the deadly night of November 26, 2008 formed hard evidence of his...
12:40 PM, Nov 21, 2012
United Nations: India was among the 39 countries that voted against a UN General Assembly draft resolution which called for abolishing the death penalty, saying every nation had the "sovereign right" to determine its own legal system. The non-binding resolution called for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty. It was adopted on Monday at the General Assembly's Third Committee, which deals with social and...
07:14 PM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: Five members of a family were on Friday awarded death penalty for in connection with the 2010 honour killing of a teenaged couple who were beaten up mercilessly, tortured and then electrocuted by the convicts who objected to the marriage as the boy belonged to a different caste. "It can be safely concluded that the prosecution has been able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the accused persons...
12:56 PM, Oct 05, 2012
I was at a South Delhi cafe this evening where I happened to over hear a rather animated conversation between a group of youngsters glued ...
12:11 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Mumbai: With the Supreme Court upholding death sentence for 26/11 attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, he became the 309th prisoner in India awaiting execution. The long list of convicts on death row means that Kasab may not be hanged soon. If executed, Kasab will be the 52nd person to be hanged in India since independence. At least 256 condemned convicts are currently awaiting Supreme Court's and high courts' endorsement to...
05:17 PM, Aug 29, 2012
External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, in Tehran for the NAM summit, said Pakistan would undoubtedly take note of the verdict upholding death sentence for 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab. ...
02:50 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Mumbai Police Joint Commissioner Himanshu Roy has said that the Crime Branch is also investigating the role of Abu Jundal in 26/11 attacks. ...
02:37 PM, Aug 29, 2012
