Tag: Nirbhaya
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‘Execution of convicts will empower women of country’, says Nirbhaya’s mother welcoming court’s decision
Right after the rapists were sentenced to death, Nirbhaya's parents have been demanding its speedy implementation.
January 7, 2020 -
Nirbhaya convicts still have legal remedies: Counsel
AP Singh, convicts' counsel, said that a lot of legal remedies, including the curative petition, are available with the convicts and only after these remedies are exhausted can the execution take place.
December 12, 2019 -
Bihar Jail preparing 10 hanging ropes as justice moves closer in Nirbhaya case
“We are expecting demand for such ropes given the prevailing situation in the country. Accordingly, we are manufacturing such ropes,” the jail superintendent said.
December 8, 2019 -
Nirbhaya parents move President office, seek rejection of convict’s mercy plea
Earlier, the Ministry of Home Affairs also recommended the rejection of mercy petition of the rape convict.
December 6, 2019 -
2012 Nibhaya gangrape victim’s parents seek fast-tracking of rapists’ execution
In December last year, the parents of Nirbhaya approached the court to fast-track the procedure to hang all four convicts in the case.
November 16, 2019 -
Delhi Police officer to file defamation suit against Netflix’s Delhi Crime show team
Sharma, who was the then SHO of Vasant Vihar Police Station when the crime took place, said he regularly met with the victim when she was hospitalised here and spent time with her.
April 2, 2019 -
Women’s Day Special | Dilliwali: In search of the quintessential Delhi woman
The book is an attempt – albeit unconventional - to help us understand who that woman is, in the voices of 94 Dilliwalis, poets aged between 13 and 70 years
March 6, 2019 -
Six years and counting…
This December, it will have been six years since Nirbhaya underwent the horrific gang rape in 2012 that resulted in her death. Six excruciatingly long years during which her parents have had to battle grief every moment; yet have pulled themselves together and bravely and steadfastly continued the quest to keep their promise to their …
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November 11, 2018 -
‘Channels’ run amuck
Not for nothing is she still known as Nirbhaya ~ though close to six years have elapsed since the horrific sexual assault that ultimately took her life. So was it really necessary for the apex court to have to drive home what every rookie reporter and “sub” ought to learn during his/her initial journalistic training? …
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August 4, 2018 -
Executions don’t eradicate crime against women: Amnesty on SC order in Nirbhaya case
The human rights body said the government must allocate adequate resources for effective implementation of laws and ensure certainty of justice in all cases
July 9, 2018 -
December 16 Delhi gangrape-murder: A Timeline
The Supreme Court rejected on Monday the review petitions filed by three of the four convicts against the death penalty awarded to them for the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student on 16 December 2012.
July 9, 2018 -
Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case convicts to be hanged
A Supreme Court bench upheld the death sentence awarded to Mukesh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma while dismissing their review petition; they had been held guilty of raping and killing a paramedical student on the intervening night of 16-17 December 2012 inside a moving bus in Delhi
July 9, 2018 -
Majority believe crime against women hasn’t increased post Nirbhaya: Survey
In wake of the recent rape cases in India, only over a third of respondents in a survey feel that crime against women have increased post the 2012 Nirbhaya
April 17, 2018 -
Statements on Nirbhaya’s mother ‘twisted’, says Karnataka ex-top cop
After receiving criticism for his remarks on Delhi gang-rape victim Nirbhaya’s mother, Karnataka’s former Director General of Police (DGP) HT Sangliana on Saturday said that his statements were “twisted”. Sangliana, a member of the ruling Congress in the southern state and a former Lok Sabha member had commented on Asha Devi at a public event …
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March 17, 2018 -
KV teacher defends her ‘revealing clothes invite Nirbhaya-like rapes’ remark
Raipur Kendriya Vidyalaya’s Biology teacher, who told students that girls wearing short clothes invite Nirbhaya like rapes, defended her statement saying that she was only instructing the girls to abide with the school’s ‘code of conduct.’ She stood firm with her belief that the girls should not leave homes at night to avoid rapes. The …
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January 30, 2018 -
Girls wearing short dresses invite ‘Nirbhaya type’ rape, KV’s teacher to students
Teenage girls in a Kendriya Vidyalaya are, reportedly, being told that girls invite Nirbhaya type rapes if they go out late at night or wear short clothes. In a class attended by both girls and boys, a biology teacher in Raipur’s Kendriya Vidyalaya told students that wearing revealing clothes incites crimes like that of the …
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January 30, 2018 -
Another Nirbhaya, this time in Haryana: Minor Dalit girl’s mutilated body found
In a chilling reminder of infamous Nirbhaya case of 2012, the Haryana Police recovered the mutilated body of a minor girl from Jind district on Friday. Sources in the police said, the girl’s private parts were mutilated. Her body was found in a canal at Budhakhera village near Safidon town. Police said the victim was from …
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January 15, 2018