Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi intensified even as Aam Aadmi Party demanded resignations of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. Former Joint Police Commissioner in Delhi Maxwell Pereira joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the matter. Q. I totally condemn the way people come down to the streets like this in the aftermath of such incidents. We, as...
04:45 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: The 5-year-old Delhi rape survivor's condition is stable, doctors said, and she is still on a semi-solid diet. Meanwhile, the second accused, Pradeep, was brought to Delhi from Bihar on Monday and is likely to be produced in court on Tuesday. The other accused is in custody till May 4. Protests are also likely to continue on the streets and in Parliament after Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar...
07:54 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Lakhisarai (Bihar): "I have committed a big mistake." This was how Pradeep Kumar, the second person arrested in connection with the rape of a five-year-old girl, responded when asked how he felt about the crime. Pradeep, a 19-year-old "illiterate" who works as a mason in Delhi, was arrested from his maternal uncle's house in Bihar in the wee hours on Monday. According to his friend Manoj, who was arrested two...
10:46 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Protests against the rape of a 5-year-old girl in the national capital went on unabated on Monday despite the arrest of a second accused in the case. Anger against the city's police mounted, led by Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and voices demanding resignation of the force's chief Neeraj Kumar kept rising. On a day that saw Parliament being rocked by the issue, Delhi Police Commissioner defended...
09:08 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Nagpur: The 4-year-old, who was allegedly raped in Ghansour town of Madhya Pradesh, continues to be critical with severe brain injuries. She continues to be on mechanical ventilator and life support system. The child is still not able to breathe and is in a deep coma with no oxygen supply to the brain. The child was allegedly raped by a 35-year-old man on Wednesday after he lured her with a...
08:00 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Sunday promised to conduct a fast track enquiry against its personnel accused of not helping the family of the five-year-old rape victim and offering them money to hush up the matter, even as a special court will be hearing the case at the same time. Police made these promises in a pamphlet distributed among protesters outside its headquarters demanding the removal of city Police Commissioner...
09:45 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old minor girl continued for a second day in the national capital even as the accused in the case was produced in a court and remanded to judicial custody till May 14. Protesters marched to India Gate, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official residence at 7, Race Course Road and police headquarters in solidarity with the minor girl who was brutally raped, nearly...
09:36 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Women and student activists on Sunday converged near India Gate, which had witnessed large scale anti-rape protests in December 2012, demanding justice for the five-year-old rape survivor in the national capital. Student protesters from JNU tried to march towards India Gate but were prevented from moving closer. They staged protests near Patiala House court complex. Some students were stopped near Taj Mansingh hotel. Women activists also reached near...
06:44 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Protesters took to the street in the national capital on Saturday, demanding justice for the 5-year-old, who was brutally raped, assaulted, nearly killed and kept captive by a man in east Delhi, bringing back memories of the events that unfolded after the rape of a 23-year-old woman. Angry crowds demonstrated outside police headquarters, despite the arrest of the arrest of the main accused, Manoj Kumar, much like the...
09:06 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: 7:02 pm: Congress President Sonia Gandhi visits AIIMS to meet the rape survivor. 7:02 pm: AIIMS Medical Superintendent DK Sharma gives a health update of the rape survivor. He says the condition of the girl is stable; she is also alert, speaking to her parents and responding to the treatment well. Sharma adds she has been put under close observation. 5:16 pm: Accused in the Delhi minor rape...
07:19 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: 5:16 pm: Accused in the Delhi minor rape case, Manoj Kumar, is brought back to the national capital from Bihar on transit remand. 4:15 pm: India Gate is vacated as Section 144, which prohibits the gathering of groups of people, is imposed in the area even as small protest is held outside Congress President Sonia Gandhi's residence at 10 Janpath. 3:56 pm: Police request protesters to clear the...
04:42 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: The five-year-old girl undergoing treatment after she was brutally raped for two days is responding to treatment, the doctors said on Saturday, adding that her condition had stabilised. The rape survivor, who was shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Friday for better treatment, was examined by a team of eight doctors. A medical superintendent at AIIMS said, "The baby had perenial injuries but...
12:59 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: 3:56 pm: Police request protesters to clear the road in front of the police headquarters. 3:27 pm: Congress General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi says, "The society has to be alert and vigilant." 3:18 pm: Around 50 to 60 protesters, predominately from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) try to march to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's house. The police stop them 200 metres away from the house. 2:56 pm: Delhi BJP...
10:04 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Manama: About 10,000 opposition protesters took to the streets of Bahrain on Friday to push their demands for political change two days before the Formula One Grand Prix that puts the Gulf Arab kingdom in the international spotlight. The atmosphere was largely peaceful as groups of men, women and children carrying Bahraini flags walked down a highway and converged at a rallying point, witnesses said. But a handful of youths...
10:02 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: The Students Federation of India (SFI) on Wednesday apologised for the attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra in New Delhi earlier this month. The duo were heckled by SFI activists as they made their way to the Planning Commission building in the capital. Mitra suffered injuries during the melee and had to be hospitalised later on. SFI General Secretary Ritabrata Banerjee,...
07:45 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Caracas: Venezuela's chief prosecutor said on Tuesday seven people have been killed and 61 injured in protests following presidential elections in which the opposition candidate is demanding a recount. Prosecutor Luisa Ortega did not provide any details about the deaths or injuries or how they occurred. But she said the seven killed were humble members of the working class, a suggestion that the opposition might be to blame. Chavez's chosen...
11:29 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal government team would soon visit Delhi to take up with the Centre the issue of attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra during a protest in the national capital. "A ministerial-level delegation from the state will soon leave here for Delhi after the chief minister fully recovers," state's Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee said in Kolkata on Tuesday. Describing the incident as "most...
10:51 PM, Apr 16, 2013
More than 12,000 villages in Maharashtra are battling acute drought. At such a time when they thought the state government will bring them some relief, the following statement of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has shocked all. Pawar said, "Somebody is there on a fast for 55 days now. His name is some Deshmukh. He is asking us to release water from dams. How could one do that? We don't...
08:05 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to maintain secularism as Bangladesh's state policy, amid countrywide celebrations on Sunday to mark the Bengali New Year, seen by right-wing Islamists as "anti-Islamic" practice. "Bangladesh will be a non-communal democratic country... Our country will be run in keeping with the spirit of the Madinah Charter of our beloved Prophet Mohammad" that charted out principles of religious harmony and co-existence, Hasina said in...
09:00 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, undergoing medical treatment for the last three days, was today discharged from the Belle Vue Clinic after agreeing to advice by doctors to take rest. "The chief minister was insisting on returning home since morning and her doctors decided to discharge her with a request to her to take rest," clinic's CEO PK Tondon told PTI. Quoting the chief minister he said she...
08:45 PM, Apr 13, 2013
