New Delhi: The condition of the 23-year-old paramedical student, who was gangraped, beaten and thrown out of a moving bus along with a male friend in Delhi, is still critical. Doctors say that she is still on ventilator support and is fighting to get better. The victim has in fact given a complete written statement to the police, explaining in detail what happened to her from the time she and...
06:58 AM, Dec 20, 2012
There was anger on the streets of Delhi over Sunday's horrific gangrape of a 23-year-old medical student who was then beaten and thrown out of a moving bus along with a male friend. ...
11:59 PM, Dec 19, 2012
BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said that the Delhi bus gangrape case should be tried in a fast-track court. ...
11:50 PM, Dec 19, 2012
CPI leader Brinda Karat said that violence against women rarely become mainstream political agenda. ...
11:40 PM, Dec 19, 2012
One woman is raped every 29 minutes, two women every hour, every day of the year in India. What's worse, the trauma of a victim only begins after she is raped. An insensitive society, police force and the judicial system violates her every time she steps out to seek justice. ...
11:20 PM, Dec 19, 2012
People expressed shock and outrage over Sunday's horrific gangrape of a 23-year-old medical student who was then beaten and thrown out of a moving bus along with a male friend. ...
08:00 PM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: While the 23-year-old medical student who was gangraped, beaten and thrown out of a moving bus along with a male friend in Delhi is fighting for her life, one of the two absconding suspects has been detained for questioning in Aurangabad, Bihar. Three of the accused were produced in a Delhi court on Wednesday and confessed. One of the accused, Vinay Sharma, went on to plead for a...
02:58 PM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday took cognisance of the gangrape of a 23-year-old medical student inside a moving bus in the state. The Delhi High Court has appointed five special courts for rape and assault cases after receiving a letter by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday. The Delhi Police have assured that the chargesheet in this case will be filed in a month. Coming down...
12:19 PM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: "Disturbed" over the gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in the national capital, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday assured women lawyers that it was looking into the "brazen" incident following a plea for a court monitored probe. "It was a brazen attempt by some persons who think that they can play with the law and order.... We are very disturbed," the court said, adding...
05:44 PM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has dismissed the bail plea of Aruna Chaddha, an accused in former flight attendant Geetika Sharma's suicide, adding that it will pass a detailed order later. Chaddha worked in the now defunct MDLR Airlines where Geetika, 23, too was an employee. Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, owner of the airlines, is the prime accused in the case. Both Chaddha and Kanda have denied...
04:32 PM, Dec 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is to give its verdict on Monday on a plea of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against a trial court order to drop stringent penal charge of 'waging war against the government' against an accused in the case of terror attack in its premises. A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and SP Garg had reserved its verdict earlier on the NIA's plea for reversal...
11:42 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Srinagar: Two men on death row for the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blasts were on Thursday acquitted by the Delhi High Court. They will finally be reunited with their loved ones after 16 years in jail but there are no celebrations, as the fight to clear their names has taken a toll. There is some relief but with it, much anger against a system that denied them justice for far too...
07:46 PM, Nov 23, 2012
The Delhi High Court on Thursday acquitted two alleged Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front militants of all the charges in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast case. ...
11:59 PM, Nov 22, 2012
The Delhi High Court on Thursday acquitted two alleged Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front militants of all the charges in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast case. ...
10:25 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: Sixteen years after the Lajpat Nagar bomb blast killed 13 people, the Delhi High Court on Thursday acquitted two alleged JKIF militants, who had been awarded capital punishment, and commuted death penalty of the third to life imprisonment. Following is the chronology of events: May 21, 1996: Thirteen people killed in bomb blast at Lajpat Nagar's Central Market. August 26, 1996: Police file chargesheet in a Delhi court...
05:09 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday acquitted two alleged Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front militants of all the charges in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast case. The duo - Mohd Ali Bhatt alias Kille and Mirza Nissar Hussain - were given death penalty for their alleged involvement in the blast case by a lower court. The Delhi High Court also commuted the death sentence of another convict Mohd...
03:38 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday inaugurated the e-court fee system at the Delhi High Court, the first in the country, an official statement said. "It is a major step forward towards developing a modern judicial system and an e-governed state. I hope that this new system would soon be implemented in all the district courts as early as possible," said Dikshit, while addressing reporters on the...
01:10 AM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the proceedings on all petitions relating to the 2G spectrum allocation scam, pending before the Delhi High Court, on a CBI plea. "All proceedings pending before the Delhi High Court shall remain stayed," said a bench of justices GS Singhvi and KS Radhakrishnan. In its plea, the CBI cited a Supreme Court order of April 11, 2011, which had directed that no...
03:00 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Rohit Shekhar, who claims to be the biological son of ND Tiwari, on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court for launch of contempt proceedings against the veteran Congress leader for allegedly not paying him Rs 25,000 as fine and expenses incurred by him on Tiwari's DNA test as per the court's order. "The defendant no 1 / contemnor (Tiwari) had not paid the costs amounting to Rs 25,000...
10:49 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Srinagar: In a major success, security forces on Sunday shot dead two top Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, including an accused in the Delhi High Court blast, during an encounter in Sopore area of Kashmir. Muzammil alias Urfi was one of the militants wanted in connection with the blast inside the High Court in Delhi in 2011 in which 17 people were killed. The other slain militant has been identified as Abdullah Shaheen,...
06:34 PM, Oct 21, 2012
