New Delhi: One of the accused in the December 16 gangrape on Saturday again pleaded the special court hearing the case not to send him back to Tihar, alleging that he was assaulted by prison security personnel who have threatened to kill him, a charge denied by the jail authorities. Accused Vinay Sharma, who suffered a hand fracture on Friday, requested Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna not to send him...
08:01 PM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: Two out of the four accused in the December 16 gangrape on Friday approached the Delhi High Court against the special court order dismissing their plea for trial to be held on alternate days instead of day-to-day basis. On March 28, the special court had dismissed their plea saying "such pleas are made to delay the proceedings." "Even the prayer that the trial be conducted on alternate days...
07:38 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: Less than a month since the alleged suicide by Delhi gangrape accused Ram Singh, another of the accused Vinay Sharma has claimed that he was beaten up by his inmates at the Tihar jail. Vinay's lawyer claimed that his right arm was fractured. Tihar jail sources say that Vinay had complained of vomiting and had been taken to the DDU hospital for treatment. When he returned, he had...
04:44 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Meerut: A class X student was allegedly raped by her tuition teacher at his home, prompting her to reportedly attempt suicide by consuming acid on Thursday, police said. The 16-year-old girl is said to be in critical condition, while the accused Prem Prakash (25) has been arrested, police said. The victim used to go to the teacher's home for tuition every day, they said. On Wednesday, Prakash raped the girl...
04:35 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Gurgaon: A local businessman was on Thursday arrested for allegedly raping his 16-year-old daughter for over a period of three years, police said. The case was registered at Sushant Lok police station in Gurgaon based on the complaint filed by the victim who alleged that her father, Anil Kumar, repeatedly raped her during last three years, ACP, DLF, Bhupinder Singh told PTI. The girl, a class XII student, reportedly told...
12:56 AM, Apr 05, 2013
"Justice", the new rallying cry on the streets and in the studios, can be awfully selective at times. The brutal gangrape of a Delhi girl ...
12:16 AM, Apr 05, 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
Muzaffarnagar: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by three youths after being abducted in Riyavli Nagla village in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday. According to the police, the girl was gangraped on Wednesday in a nearby jungle after being abducted by the trio in a SUV. The girl was later threatened with dire consequences, if she revealed anything about the incident. Police said a FIR has...
04:29 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: The December 16, 2012 brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student who later died due the horrific assault led to a massive public outrage and forced the government bring a anti-rape law. Despite the public outrage and demand for strict punishment for the culprits following the Delhi gangrape, the rape victims continue to be face a lot of hardships. In one such incident, an eight-year-old rape victim and...
02:10 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: Defence counsel in the December 16, 2012 gangrape case on Wednesday cross-examined an Air India (AI) official posted at the IGI cargo terminal who received the coffin carrying the victim's body. Cross-examined by counsel of accused Mukesh, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta, the official denied their claim that the death certificate and other documents accompanying the victim's body, which was flown in from Singapore, were manipulated. The AI...
03:33 AM, Apr 04, 2013
A witness in the December 16 gangrape case on Wednesday denied before a special court the claim of an accused that the death certificate and other relevant documents accompanying the victim's body, which was flown in from Singapore, were manipulated. "I (prosecution witness) had seen the original passport of the victim. I had not seen the dates on the passport. I can not comment on the contents of the document,"...
06:30 PM, Apr 03, 2013
A nine-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped in Durg district of Chhattisgarh and died on Tuesday, police said. The girl, who was dumped in a ground adjacent to her house here with serious injuries on Tuesday morning, succumbed to her injuries in a government hospital in the evening, they said. ...
02:45 AM, Apr 03, 2013
One of the four accused in the December 16 gangrape case sought a direction from a special court in New Delhi that he be provided nutritious food inside Tihar jail as he has to prepare for tests for recruitment of clerks in Indian Air Force. Vinay Sharma, the accused who along with others had allegedly gangraped the 23-year-old girl in a moving bus, moved the plea before Additional Sessions Judge...
08:05 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Government has served show-cause notices to two senior IPS officers and several others asking them to explain why action should not be initiated against them for alleged dereliction of duty in connection with the December 16, 2012 gangrape incident in New Delhi. The show-cause notices were served against the then Delhi Police Special Commissioner (Operations) Deepak Mishra, the then Joint Commissioner (Traffic) Satyendra Garg besides a DCP and an Additional...
03:59 AM, Apr 02, 2013
A professor, who facilitated registration of FIR after the alleged gangrape of a Swiss tourist in the district last month, on Monday recorded his statement before a special court here. Ratan Suryawanshi recorded his statement before additional district judge Jitendra Kumar Sharma, according to sources in prosecution. ...
10:12 PM, Apr 01, 2013
The bail plea of one of the accused in the Delhi gangrape case Vinay Sharma is expected to be heard on Monday. The accused has sought his bail to prepare for entrance exams for the Indian Air Force. ...
09:20 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The trial in the Swiss woman gangrape case began in Datia on Saturday with two prosecution witnesses recording their statements before a special court. All the six accused in the case were produced before Additional District Judge (ADJ) Jitendra Kumar Sharma, prosecution sources said. ...
01:15 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Nearly two weeks after a Swiss national was gangraped in Madhya Pradesh's Datia, the trial in the case is set to begin on Saturday. On Tuesday, the police filed the chargesheet against the six accused, who were arrested soon after the incident. In order to prove the charges against the accused, police said they would count more on the scientific evidence than traditional methods like identification parade. ...
07:39 AM, Mar 30, 2013
A 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by two youths on Tuesday, has set herself on fire in Bajrangarh village of the district. ...
03:27 AM, Mar 30, 2013
A 15-year old girl was allegedly gangraped by five persons in Hanumangarh district, about 225 kms from Bikaner, police said on Friday. ...
02:07 AM, Mar 30, 2013
