New Delhi: Penal provisions on rape have been misused by some women who develop consensual physical relationship with their lovers and after the breakup file false rape cases to force them to marry them, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice Kailash Gambhir said rape law was often misused by women as weapon for "vengeance and vendetta" to harass and blackmail their male friends by filing false cases to extort money and to force them to marry them.
"Many of the cases are being reported by those women who have consensual physical relationship with a man but when the relationship breaks due to one reason or the other, the women use the law as a weapon for vengeance and personal vendetta to extort money and sometimes even to force the boy to get married to them," the court said in a recent order.
"Out of anger and frustration, they tend to convert such consensual sex as an incident of rape, defeating the very purpose of the provision," Justice Gambhir said, while hearing a case related to a woman's complaint against her lover in Rani Bagh area on July 13, 2012.
The rape complaint was filed against Rohit Chauhan, who was allegedly in a relationship with the woman for three years. The court said that in many cases the woman first agrees to have consensual sex but she files a rape case against her boyfriend when the relationship breaks up in order to "force him to get married,
10:22 PM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Mohammad Yahya alias Yusuf, a bookie arrested in the connection of the spot-fixing scandal, was in touch with several cricketers apart from the three arrested Rajasthan Royals players, the Delhi Police said on Saturday. During the interrogation, Yahya claimed that knew many Indian as well as foreign players and contacted them for spot-fixing, said an officer who did not want to be named. Yahya, 45, was arrested at...
06:59 PM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday ruled out the involvement of owners on Indian Premier League teams so far, saying nobody's name has cropped up yet. "No owner's name has surfaced in our investigation. When they found out that players did not play up to their full potential and that they gave runs away for money, they complained that they've been cheated," Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. A total...
03:10 PM, May 25, 2013
Aam Aadmi Party released the first shortlist of 44 probable candidates for 12 seats in the forthcoming Delhi Assembly elections. Names that leap out of the list are those of Manish Sisodia from Patpartganj, Sazia Ilmi from RK Puram and Somnath Bharti from Malaviya Nagar. AAP's list of probables also has former Congress and BJP workers such as Bheem Singh and Kishori Lal Dhanak who haven't contested an election yet....
12:44 PM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Gearing up for its electoral debut in the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday announced the names of 44 shortlisted candidates for 12 constituencies. "The final 12 would be selected after recommendations of grassroot level workers and selection committee after proper consultation and debate among them," AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal told reporters while announcing the list of shortlisted candidates. He said the candidates were...
08:57 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Temperatures continued to remain high across North India on Friday with the national capital touching 45 degrees Celsius and Amritsar boiling at 47 degrees Celsius. Rajasthan sizzled between 44 and 47 degrees Celsius. However, the Met department has said that a marginal fall in temperature can be expected by Sunday. 84 people have died in Andhra Pradesh since the 1st of April due to the heat. New Delhi...
07:30 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Cricketer Sreesanth arrested in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal had gifted a smart phone to a second girl and investigators have recovered it, police sources said on Friday. "We have recovered a second mobile phone, a Blackberry Bold, from his female friend. He has gifted this phone to her. He purchased it from Jaipur during one of the matches played by his team there," a senior police...
07:41 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: In the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, the Delhi High Court on Friday reserved the judgment on Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the Sultanpuri case. The court heard the arguments of both sides. Riot victims' lawyer HS Phoolka argued that criminal conspiracy be also added to the existing charges. Earlier in May, the Congress leader was acquitted of all charges in another case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots....
06:18 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: A man allegedly raped a class 10 student living in his neighbourhood inside her home in Delhi's Vivek Vihar colony. The heinous crime took place when the girl was alone at home as here family members had gone out. The victim has alleged that her neighbour forcefully entered her house and raped her. According to sources, family members lodged the complaint when the girl narrated the entire incident...
02:21 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: A day after Delhi recorded its hottest day in May in the last 10 years, the mercury is expected to rise further Friday, the India Meteorological Department said. "The heatwave conditions will prevail over the city Friday. The maximum temperature is expected to be around 46 degrees Celsius," an IMD official said. The minimum temperature early Friday was three notches above average at 29.5 degrees Celsius, while the...
12:00 PM, May 24, 2013
Hyderabad: An alleged cricket bookie was nabbed from the international airport in Hyderabad by a Delhi Police team in the early hours on Friday. "One person identified as Mohammad Yahya has been picked up from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in connection with the cricket betting racket by the Delhi Police team in the wee hours," a senior police official said. Yahya was picked up by police while he...
11:45 AM, May 24, 2013
At a meeting with party workers in Delhi ahead of state elections this year, Rahul Gandhi admonished them. Rahul said that he will not shy away from disciplining them, unlike Congress President Sonia Gandhi. ...
10:24 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has made it clear that no foreign player is involved in the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal. "No foreign player's name has come up in our investigation," Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. He said 12 bookies and three players - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - have been arrested so far in the case. The custody of former Ranji player Manish Gudheva...
09:08 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: With Assembly election just months away, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday asked party leaders in Delhi to work unitedly to ensure a fourth successive victory for the party in the polls and sent out a clear message that indiscipline will not be tolerated by him. At around five-hour long interaction with separate groups of Congress workers at DPCC office in Central Delhi, Rahul underlined the need...
08:38 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear the appeal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar to quash charges of murder and rioting framed against him in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He is accused in the murders of six people in the Sultanpuri area of New Delhi. Earlier in May, Sajjan was acquitted of all charges in another case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. District and Sessions Judge JR Aryan...
07:58 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that departmental enquiry has been initiated against seven policemen in connection with the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in New Delhi. Those policemen, who were manning the PCR van in the locality through which the bus had passed, have also come under the scanner of enquiry. Appearing for Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA),...
04:06 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday demanded initiation of criminal proceedings against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly misusing public funds on an advertisement campaign to get political mileage ahead of last Assembly polls. "We demand registering a criminal case against the Delhi CM for misusing the hard-earned money of tax payers in her election campaign in 2008. We demand immediate action based on the recommendations of the Lokayukta...
12:26 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Mumbai Police on Thursday served a notice to Chennai Super Kings team owner and BCCI chief N Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, asking him to appear before it for questioning by 5.00 pm on Friday. The police claimed they needed to probe a substantial number of calls made by arrested Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh to Meiyappan and bookie Ramesh Vyas. All through Thursday, even as dramatic scenes...
10:40 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Mumbai Police on Thursday served a notice to Chennai Super Kings team owner and BCCI chief N Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, asking him to appear before it for questioning by 5.00 pm on Friday. The police claimed they needed to probe a substantial number of calls made by arrested Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh to Meiyappan and bookie Ramesh Vyas. All through Thursday, even as dramatic scenes...
10:40 PM, May 23, 2013
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was pulled up by the state Lokayukta for misusing public funds on government advertisements before the 2008 election. ...
09:06 PM, May 23, 2013
