Tag: Nirbhaya
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Nirbhaya-like incident in Haryana’s Jind
In a case which reminds the Nirbhaya case in 2012, the Haryana police has recovered the mutilated body of a minor girl from Jind district on Friday. Sources in the police department said, the girl’s private parts were completely mutilated and her liver was ruptured at a canal Budhakhera village near Safidon town on Friday …
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January 14, 2018 -
Rapists of minors should be hanged within 6 months: Maliwal
Lamenting the “delay” in carrying out the sentence of December 16 gang-rape and murder incident, Delhi Commission for Women Chief Swati Maliwal today claimed the long winding legal process allowed the criminals to feel they can get away with such heinous crimes. She urged the prime minister to bring in a legislation wherein at least …
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December 16, 2017 -
On 5th anniversary of ‘Nirbhaya’ case, Mamata urges for safe society
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday urged people to resolve to keep the society safe, recalling the brutal gangrape and murder of a physiotherapy student in Delhi five years back. “Remembering #Nirbhaya on the 5th anniversary of brutal Delhi incident. We cannot compensate her loss but let us resolve to keep our society …
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December 16, 2017 -
Five years after Nirbhaya, is Delhi any safer for women?
Five years after 23-year-old Nirbhaya was brutally raped and murdered by five men on December 16, earning Delhi an epithet of “rape capital” of India, has the national capital become any safer for women? Crime data doesn’t suggest so and females who live and work in the city and its peripheries also don’t feel safer despite …
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December 14, 2017 -
Another Nirbhaya, this time in Haryana’s Rohtak
This is in no manner less gruesome than the Delhi’s infamous Nirbhaya gang rape case of 2012. A 23-year-old Sonepat girl was abducted, gangraped, run over by a vehicle and her head smashed with bricks to conceal identity. The badly mutilated body was found from a plot in Rohtak on Saturday, five days after she …
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May 14, 2017 -
He deserved death sentence, say Akshay’s family members
Akshay, a convict in the fatal 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student, deserved the death sentence, his family members said after the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for him and three others in the case on Friday. "We have ended our relationship with him; Akshay is no more our family member; we …
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May 5, 2017 -
SC rejects argument of FIR delay in Nirbhaya gang-rape case
An FIR is not an encyclopaedia of facts, the Supreme Court observed on Friday as it rejected the contention of the four Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts that there was delay in lodging of the FIR in the December 2012 crime, and their names were not mentioned in the initial police report. Finding no fault with the …
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May 5, 2017 -
Happy over SC decision in Nirbhaya case: Maneka Gandhi
Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Friday voiced her happiness after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of all convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case. "I am happy that the Supreme court has reconfirmed the death sentence of these rapists. It was truly a heinous crime," Gandhi told CNN-News18 channel. She said …
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May 5, 2017 -
Nirbhaya verdict: Defence lawyer to file review petition
Soon after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for all four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape case, defence lawyer AP Singh said he will file a review petition against the judgement. "I am not satisfied with the judgement. After studying it, I will file a review petition on behalf of Akshay Kumar Singh, Vinay …
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May 5, 2017 -
DCW chief welcomes SC decision in Nirbhaya gang rape case
Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Jaihind welcomed the Supreme Court's decision in the brutal December 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape case and said it will send a "strong message" to the rapists. "DCW welcomes the Supreme Court decision. Finally, justice was delayed but not denied. Nirbhaya's rapists will be served death penalty now," Jaihind …
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May 5, 2017 -
Twitterati hail SC for Nirbhaya gangrape verdict
People from across the country, from all walks of life on Friday hailed the Supreme Court for upholding the death sentence to all four convicts in the December 2012 Delhi gang-rape case and termed it a triumphant moment for the Indian judiciary for ensuring that justice was served. “The Final Verdict Is Out! #Nirbhaya’s Rapists …
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May 5, 2017 -
A brief timeline of Nirbhaya gangrape case
As the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence on all four convicts in the December 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, the judement was hailed by many especially those who have been closely following the brutal case. As per the SC order, Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur who were convicted on charges of brutally raping …
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May 5, 2017 -
Panel pulls up govt over underutilisation of Nirbhaya Fund
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs on Wednesday said the Rs.1000 crore Nirbhaya Fund to address issues of women’s safety and security was “severely underutilised,” and was being used for miscellaneous expenditure in the absence of proper schemes. In its report on the Ministry’s budgetary demands for 2017-18, the Committee said the surprising situation …
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March 15, 2017 -
4 years on, unanswered questions haunt Nirbhaya’s mother
Four years after the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus that shook the entire nation, the mother of the victim, who was dubbed Nirbhaya for her valiant battle against her attackers, still asks the same questions, “What was my daughter's fault? Why did she die in such a …
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December 15, 2016 -
Nirbhaya’s parents want all convicts dead
Hours after the suicide attempt by one of the convicts in the December 16, 2012 gang-rape case, the parents of the 23-year-old victim on Thursday said they wanted to see "all of the convicts dead so that they could take a sigh of relief". "It is good. It is a big thing that he is …
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August 25, 2016 -
Jamia varsity seeks action against police entering campus
Jamia varsity seeks action against police entering campus
August 14, 2016