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 Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna. After her cross-examination was over, she urged the judge with folded hands to do justice to her daughter.
"Judge sahab, meri beti ko insaaf dilaiye (secure justice to my daughter)," she prayed to the court. During the proceedings, advocate VK Anand, appearing for accused Mukesh, did not cross-examine her saying, "she is already in deep pain and asking her a question related to her daughter may make her more depressed."
"I do not want to ask any question on behalf of my client. I can understand the pain of a mother...," Anand said. When the counsel for other three accused started to cross examine the witness, the judge requested them to be "polite" with the woman and ask relevant questions....
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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: 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
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
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
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday met Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in the wake of the alleged suicide by a December 16 gangrape case accused and said a magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the incident. The issue figured in the meeting during which the Chief Minister also discussed the law and order situation in the capital. ...
12:42 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Delhi gangrape accused Ram Singh committed suicide inside his cell in Tihar jail. His body was found on Monday morning at 5.00 am. ...
10:52 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Delhi braveheart's brother spoke to CNN-IBN on Monday and said that he was a bit surprised to hear the news of Ram Singh's suicide. ...
10:08 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Ram Singh, one of the six accused in the Delhi gangrape case, committed suicide in his cell in Tihar jail number 3 early on Monday morning. His suicide has come as a huge embarrassment for the jail authorities as reports had earlier indicated that the accused were under suicide watch. Experts say mental duress must have forced the accused to take the step. ...
08:03 AM, Mar 11, 2013
The government on Thursday decided to allot a Delhi Development Authority (DDA) flat to the family of the 23-year-old girl who was gangraped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012. ...
05:07 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Government is likely to allot a flat to the family of the 23-year-old girl who was gangraped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus in New Delhi last December. The middle income group Delhi Development Authority (DDA) flat costing around Rs 50 lakh would be alloted from the vacant pool, sources said. ...
05:02 PM, Feb 21, 2013
