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), Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Rajeeve Mehra told the bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Jayant Nath that "departmental enquiry has been initiated against as many as seven police personnel including staff of a PCR van who were on duty on December 16, 2012".
The senior law officer told the bench that communication was sent to police commissioner in this regard. The senior counsel also sought more time for government to act upon the recommendations of Justice Usha Mehra Commission, constituted to look into various issues relating to safety of women in Delhi....
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10:47 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Terming himself innocent, an accused in the December 16 gang rape Thursday moved an application before the fast track court seeking permission to undergo a lie detector test. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna asked the Delhi Police to file its reply on the plea of Vinay Sharma, one of the six accused in the case. Saying Sharma has been falsely implicated in the case, his counsel told the...
01:47 AM, Apr 26, 2013
United States has selected the 23-year-old Delhi braveheart for the International Women of Courage Award. The award to the braveheart would be presented posthumously by the First Lady Michelle Obama and the Secretary of State John Kerry, on March 8, an official announcement said on Monday. ...
06:39 AM, Mar 05, 2013
The cross examination of the main prosecution witness in the brutal Delhi gangrape-murder case began in a fast-track court on Wednesday. The trial in the brutal Delhi gangrape-murder case began after the Delhi Police filed post-mortem and forensic reports with a supplementary chargesheet. ...
01:55 PM, Feb 06, 2013
The prime accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case, Ram Singh, is now planning to move the Supreme Court to transfer the case away from Delhi to any other state except for Uttar Pradesh. Ram Singh, who is the driver of the bus in which the gangrape took place, expressed apprehension about getting justice in Delhi. ...
02:34 PM, Jan 17, 2013
The Saket district court will on Thursday examine the documents filed along with the chargesheet against the five accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case. This after their legal counsel claimed that several documents in the chargesheet were incomplete and illegible. ...
09:25 AM, Jan 17, 2013
The in-camera trial of the Delhi gangrape-murder case will begin on Thursday. The accused in the brutal gangrape of the braveheart will be produced in the court in the case which is likely to be transferred to a fast track court. Also, the name of the defence lawyers for the accused would be announced on Thursday. The court had on Monday ordered an in-camera trial and restrained media from publishing...
08:31 AM, Jan 10, 2013
The judicial custody of one of the six accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case, Akshay Thakur, will get over on Wednesday. He will be produced in the court. ...
08:41 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Even as the outrage over self-proclaimed godman Asaram's comments on the Delhi braveheart continues, his followers refused to apologise and instead defended his remarks. Asaram hit a new low in the public discourse on the brutal gangrape and murder case of the 23-year-old paramedical student, saying she was partly to blame for what she suffered. He even said that the Delhi braveheart could have begged the attackers to escape. ...
07:45 AM, Jan 08, 2013
All the five accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case were presented in the Saket court where they will be given copies of the chargesheet shortly. The judge has ordered an in-camera trial and the removal of people not connected with the case from the court premises. ...
02:47 PM, Jan 07, 2013
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02:12 PM, Jan 07, 2013
There was high drama inside the Saket court on Monday as the five accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case were produced. Members of the Bar association created a chaos after two lawyers offered to represent the accused, two of whom have reportedly expressed desire to turn approver. The members of the Saket Bar Association had earlier decided not to defend the accused. ...
01:08 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Even as the five accused reached the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Jyoti Kler in Saket on Monday morning, the controversy over the age of the sixth accused in the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical students continues. The Juvenile Justice Board will take up the matter of verifying the age of the accused minor who claims to be 17. ...
11:48 AM, Jan 07, 2013
All the five accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case will be presented in the Saket court on Monday and will be given copies of the chargesheet. Also, the Juvenile Court will take up the matter of verifying the age of the minor accused who claims to be 17. ...
07:35 AM, Jan 07, 2013
Amidst reports of lawyers refusing to represent the accused in the gangrape-cum-murder case of the 23-year-old paramedic, two women judges have come out with suggestions for effective fast-tracking of the trial. While Justice Gyan Sudha Misra, a sitting Supreme Court judge, suggested amendments to the Evidence Act to avoid recording of evidence at multiple stages to "cut-short" the whole process of trial, former Delhi High Court judge, Justice Usha Mehra...
12:47 PM, Dec 30, 2012
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced "deep sorrow" at the death of the 23-year-old Delhi braveheart, asking the Indian government to implement reforms to deter such crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. Ban "utterly condemns this brutal crime" and expresses "deep sorrow" at the death of the girl, who was brutally gangraped and assaulted by six men in a moving bus in Delhi on December 16 and succumbed to...
12:08 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Close on the heels of the horrific Delhi gangrape, violence and harassment against women continues in the country. Another woman was allegedly molested on a bus in Delhi on Saturday night. The police has been quick to act and arrested one person. ...
11:20 AM, Dec 30, 2012
Braving chilly weather, Indian-Americans gathered at the Gandhi Statue here to hold a candlelight vigil for the 23-year-old Delhi braveheart, who died after battling for life, 13 days after being most brutally raped by six men aboard a moving bus, as US media slammed the "reprehensible crime" saying half of India's population "lives in fear of unspeakable violence". ...
10:57 AM, Dec 30, 2012
