A recent judgment by Lahore High Court which, extensively citing Indian judicial verdicts, has termed the so-called ‘virginity tests’ routinely conducted on survivors of rape or sexual assault a ‘blatant violation of the dignity of a woman’ and held them to be unconstitutional.
January 13, 2021MHA issues advisory on mandatory action to states,UTs
October 11, 2020Biden leads Trump in national polling ahead of November's elections by about five percentage points, according to a poll average compiled by RealClearPolitics.
May 5, 2020Weinstein was sentenced to 20 years for a criminal sexual act in the first degree and three years for rape in the third degree to be served consecutively for assaulting the two women in New York
March 12, 2020Weinstein was found guilty of a criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree following a high-profile trial that lasted several weeks.
March 6, 2020The BJP leader was released from the Shahjahanpur district jail on Wednesday after the Allahabad High Court had granted him bail on Monday.
February 7, 2020On the day of the incident, she was playing outside her house when the accused, on the pretext of playing games on his mobile phone, took her to his residence, where he raped her in the absence of his parents.
February 6, 202067-year-old Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to five counts, two of which are rape, and faces a possible sentence of life imprisonment.
February 6, 2020At the shelter home in Muzaffarpur, at least 44 girls – aged seven to fourteen – were allegedly drugged, raped, forced to sleep naked and scalded with boiling water.
January 14, 2020He has also been fined rupees 50,000 failing to pay which he will have to undergo another six months of imprisonment.
December 19, 2019The woman was reportedly raped in Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar last year and had filed a police complaint last July, following which the accused was arrested and later released on bail on Wednesday.
December 12, 2019Vice President's remarks came a day after Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde said justice can never be instant and loses its character when it becomes revenge.
December 9, 2019In the wake of rape incidents in various parts of the country and concerns over women's security, Congress president Sonia Gandhi will not celebrate her birthday on Monday.
December 8, 2019The victim, who had suffered more than 90 per cent burn injuries, was airlifted to Safdarjung Hospital on Thursday evening and was in an extremely critical condition.
December 7, 2019A team of the Investigation Division of the Commission headed by an SSP is expected to leave immediately and submit their report at the earliest.
December 6, 2019The young veterinarian's rape and murder on November 27 had sent shockwaves across the nation with several women politicians demanding death penalty for rapists.
December 6, 2019In a major development, all four accused were killed when they were trying to escape during the recreation of the crime at the same spot where the woman’s body was found.
December 6, 2019