Bhopal: A local court in Bhopal Monday rejected an NGO's plea to raise the quantum of punishment given to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The petition to raise the quantum of punishment in the case was filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan convenor Abdul Jabbar and others.
Rejecting the plea, District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla said that the NGO could at best assist the prosecution, but had no liberty to become a party in the case. Expressing unhappiness over the development, Jabbar said that it took three years for the court to decide on the admissibility of the petition. He claimed that it was a violation of the IPC amended section 372 (WA), which says that a person can become a party in the case in which the prosecution is inactive and the concerned persons are not interested in taking the matter to its logical end.
"In this particular case, unfortunately, this was happening since the beginning of the matter," Jabbar, who has been fighting for the rights of the gas victims since 1984, said while reacting to the decision. The petition was filed by Jabbar and others after the judgement of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court, which according to them, awarded lesser punishment to the accused in the case in 2010. It urged the court to award punishment to the accused under sections 304 A, 335, 336, 37 and 38 of the IPC....
12:29 AM, May 21, 2013
Alipore: A lady teacher who was arrested for allegedly banging a class III student's head against a wall as punishment leading to his death was on Saturday remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Alipore ACJM, SM Shahnawaz, remanded Champa Mondal of the Nirdheshkhali Shishu Shiksha Kendra in South 24 Parganas district to judicial custody and she would be produced before the court again on June 1. Mondal allegedly banged the...
06:33 PM, May 18, 2013
Kolkata: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has sought a report from West Bengal officials on the death of an eight-year-old student after he was allegedly assaulted by his teacher in class. The commission took up the matter after a report on CNN-IBN. The NCPCR has asked the South 24 Parganas district administration for a detailed report on the circumstances around the student's death. The eight-year-old, a...
10:21 AM, May 18, 2013
Kolkata: Alleged corporal punishment left an 8-year-old dead in South 24 Parganas in West Bengal. The student died after his head was allegedly banged against the wall by a teacher. The incident happened at the Nirdeshkhali school at Basanti in South 24 Parganas. The child was beaten up on May 15 as a punishment for throwing bags across the classroom during the class. The accused teacher has been arrested. More...
01:38 PM, May 17, 2013
Although the global trend towards abolition remained strong, 2012 saw a disappointing resumption of executions in some countries including India, the latest Amnesty International report on death penalty and capital sentencing around the world in 2012 has revealed. The total number of confirmed executions was 682, two more than in 2011 with India accounting for one of them - the hanging of Mumbai 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab. The data from...
11:02 AM, Apr 12, 2013
The Shiv Sena protested at the premises of the Dr Antonio De Silva School where three six-year-old students were chained, paraded and made to clean toilets as punishment. Shiv Sena leaders met the trustees of the school saying the teacher should be suspended pending inquiry. ...
01:25 PM, Mar 18, 2013
In a horrific incident in Mumbai, three 6-year-old students were chained and paraded around school as punishment for creating ruckus in class. They were also made to clean toilets. The police have now registered a case under the Juvenile Justice Act. ...
07:20 AM, Mar 18, 2013
What lessons can the police and jail authorities draw from the suicide of Ram Singh? Former director general of Tihar jail Kiran Bedi shared her perspective in an interaction with IBNLive readers. ...
06:08 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The Delhi High Court has directed the district and sessions judge to initiate action against officers responsible for non-availability of files of a 20-year-old rape case. ...
10:55 PM, Mar 05, 2013
A class V student of a government school in Fatehgarh Sahib was hospitalised after he was allegedly thrashed by a teacher. ...
12:46 AM, Mar 03, 2013
A week after the gruesome rape and murders of three sisters in Bhandara district in Maharashtra, no arrests have been made yet. The mother of the three girls wants the culprits to be hanged in public. "I think the men who did this should be found at the earliest and hanged in public," she said speaking to CNN-IBN. ...
09:59 AM, Feb 21, 2013
While speaking to CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said that alcohol is the root cause of crime against women. ...
11:30 AM, Feb 20, 2013
While speaking to CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said that alcohol is the root cause of crime against women. ...
11:59 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has entered the Afzal Guru hanging debate saying Kashmiris should see Afzal as an Indian and not just a Kashmiri. He also said that death penalty should be abolished while speaking to CNN-IBN's deputy editor Sagarika Ghose. ...
12:03 PM, Feb 19, 2013
At least five persons were injured as fresh protests broke out in Kashmir on Tuesday against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. ...
11:41 PM, Feb 12, 2013
In a shocking case, two teachers at a madrassa allegedly burnt the feet of a 11-year-old student by pressing hot iron on them after the child tried to run away from the seminary in Rajouri district. The two teachers, Anwar-ul-Haq and Ahmed Jameel, allegedly pressed hot iron on the feet of Mohmmad Musharaf as "punishment" for trying to run away from the madrassa a few days ago, SSP, Rajouri, Mubassir...
01:21 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Amid the nationwide debate over giving rapists the death penalty, Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen is not in favour of capital punishment, saying it does not serve as a "deterrent" and "preventive function". Sen at the same time said today he was not against "severe punishment" in critical cases. ...
11:17 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore Friday opposed capital punishment for rape saying death is neither the ultimate punishment nor a deterrent. "I don't think death is the ultimate punishment. It is not a deterrent because when the person is committing the crime, he thinks that he is not going to be caught. ...
10:02 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Texas is set to execute Kimberly McCarthy by lethal injection on Tuesday, the first woman to be put to death in the United States in more than two years. The execution is scheduled to be carried out at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas after 6 pm local time. ...
05:44 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Tuesday reiterated his demand for stringent punishment to those accused in rape cases. "There should be stringent punishment for the rape accused. Tough laws are necessary," Hazare told reporters in Mumbai. ...
06:49 PM, Jan 08, 2013
