New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday refuted the allegations of the four accused in the December 16 gangrape case in a special court that the victim was not assaulted by iron rods and she died before being taken to Singapore. "It is wrong to suggest that I had not taken the opinion of the doctors during the lifetime of the victim, despite various opportunities, as the said weapons were allegedly not with us at that time or that the same were planted later after the death of the girl.
"It is wrong to suggest that the girl expired before being sent to Singapore or that due to the pressure her body was sent to Singapore..," the SHO of Vasant Vihar police station told Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna. The counsel for the accused had alleged the SHO had not taken the opinion of doctors on the weapons of offence during the lifetime of the victim, "despite various opportunities" because the iron rods were never used in the offence.
Deposing as a 78th prosecution witness, the SHO said the the two iron rods were not taken to Singapore where the doctors conducted the postmortem. Hence, the opinion of doctors at Singapore could not be taken on the injuries inflicted by the iron rods, the SHO testified. "When I reached Singapore, the postmortem had already been conducted and the body was transported to the airport," he said.
Four accused - Vinay, Mukesh, Pawan and Akshay Thakur - are
10:14 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Tihar jail authorities on Thursday told a special court here that one of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case is being given proper medical care in the hospital where he is admitted and the doctors there are not on strike. "It has been confirmed from the guard, who is escorting guarding the accused Vinay Sharma at LNJP Hospital that the doctors of the hospital are...
09:52 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court hearing the December 16, 2012 gangrape on Monday sought the medical report of an accused admitted to hospital with high fever, while the victim's friend deposed against two accused involved in the assault in a moving bus. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna called for the medical report of Vinay Sharma from Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where he was taken on May 6 from Tihar Jail...
11:10 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court, hearing the December 16 gangrape case on Monday directed the Tihar Jail authorities to file a detailed report on the death of Ram Singh, one of the six accused in the sensational crime. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna's order came after counsel VK Anand, appearing for accused Mukesh (Ram Singh's brother), told the court that jail authorities have not yet complied with the court's March...
11:41 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: With the trial in the Delhi gangrape case "almost 90 per cent complete", the court verdict is expected to come by the end of May, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. In an interview with a news channel Neeraj Kumar said: "The trial of December 16 (2012) case is almost 90 per cent complete and judgment is expected by the end of May." On December 16, 2012, a...
10:46 PM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: The United Nations Wednesday expressed regret that the anti-rape law passed by the government after the December 16 gang-rape incident did not fully reflect the recommendations of the Justice JS Verma Committee. "Recommendations on marital rape, lesbians and age of consent (for sex) were not adopted in the legislation," UN special rapporteur on violence against women Rashida Manjoo told reporters here. She said: "I welcome the government of...
09:59 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea of two accused in the December 16 gangrape case that the FIR and subsequent proceedings against them be quashed. Justice Pratibha Rani also upheld the order of a special court by which the plea of accused Mukesh and Akshay Singh against day-to-day trial was rejected. In their petition, they had sought quashing of FIR on the ground that police...
12:58 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Two defendants in the Delhi gangrape and murder trial on Thursday claimed that they were not in the bus in which the 23-year-old student was repeatedly raped on December 16, 2012. Accused Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta made the plea before a special fast-track court hearing the trial in the Capital. Vinay claimed that he had photos and videos on this mobile which could establish that he and Pawan were ...
02:10 PM, Apr 12, 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
Economy grew only by 4.5 per cent in the October-December period of the current financial year, pulled down by poor performance of farm, manufacturing and mining sectors. The gross domestic product (GDP) had expanded by 6 per cent in the same period of last fiscal. ...
06:28 PM, Feb 28, 2013
India's January inflation stood at 6.62 per cent, slowest since November 2009 and lower than December's 7.18 per cent. The inflation number has hit its lowest level in more than three years. ...
11:53 AM, Feb 14, 2013
The hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been pending since August 2005, when the Supreme Court rejected his plea challenging the death sentence that was awarded to him by a Delhi court in 2002. Since then, the government has been under pressure from the Opposition and activists to hang Afzal Guru. ...
09:12 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Monday strongly supported the upsurge of protests in the aftermath of the barbaric gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedic student in Delhi on December 16, describing it as "justified and necessary". The CJI also said he wished he could have taken part in the protests that shook up the nation and exposed the flimsy safety measures for women in the country. ...
08:21 PM, Jan 21, 2013
India's headline inflation is likely to have risen in December by less than the central bank projected, and should reinforce hopes for a cut in interest rates in January to boost an economy that is set to post its slowest growth in a decade. Data to be released later on Monday is expected to show the wholesale price index (WPI), India's main inflation gauge, probably rose an annual 7.4 per...
10:07 AM, Jan 14, 2013
Mohun Bagan, had been banned for abandoning its I-League derby against East Bengal last December, citing security concerns. The I-League core committee of the AIFF endorsed the decision of Justice AK Ganguly. In his report, the judge concluded that Mohun Bagan's decision not to play the second half could not be supported on the grounds of force majeure. Football analyst Novy Kapadia joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on whether...
05:40 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The Obama administration gave the first explicit signal Tuesday that it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to keep a lid on al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces. "The US does not have an inherent objective of 'X' number of troops in Afghanistan," said Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy national security adviser....
08:52 AM, Jan 09, 2013
ChannelAdvisor said on Tuesday that client sales growth on Amazon.com Inc's and eBay Inc's online marketplaces slowed in December. ...
01:48 AM, Jan 09, 2013
In the wake of the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old woman in a moving private white line bus in Delhi, Delhi Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami on Thursday flagged off 47 more night service buses, a move intended to provide a more safe public transport. There will also be security personnel on these buses while the bus staff have been sensitised to face the challenges that may arise, said a a...
09:17 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Cape Canaveral: NASA is so sure there will be a December 22, 2012, it has already posted a YouTube video titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday". Scientists say rumors on social media and the Internet of Earth's premature demise have been prompted by a misunderstanding of the ancient Mayan calendar, which runs through December 21, 2012. "It's just the end of the cycle and the beginning of the new...
12:44 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: Yet another predicted doomsday, that didn't happen. Nothing earth shattering happened on December 21, 2012. That December 21 marked the end of an age in a 5,125 year-old Maya calendar, the event was variously interpreted. Some believed the date to be the end of days, so other it marked the start of a new era and for many just a good excuse for a party. As the dawn...
06:53 AM, Dec 21, 2012
