Tag: rapist
A serial rapist now in custody may have targeted more than 50 victims although he claims he didn't rape all, police said on Monday.....
President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday approved an ordinance to provide death penalty for those convicted of raping girls younger than 12 years besides clearing another ordinance to confiscate property of fugitive economic offenders.....
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the curative petitions filed by two Nirbhaya gang rape and murder convicts - Vinay Kumar and Mukesh - who questioned the death sentence handed down by trial court and upheld by the High Court and the top court.....
A woman cannot be treated as a commodity, having no rights to say no, an advocate for a petitioner in the matter related to the criminalisation of marital rape told the Delhi High Court on Monday. ....
The Central government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it is proposing the death penalty for those convicted of raping children below the age of 12.....
Delhi Commission for Women Chairperson Swati Maliwal, whose indefinite hunger strike to demand death for rapists of children continued for the ninth day on Saturday, said she would end her fast at 2 p.m. on Sunday.....
Rajya Sabha members cutting across party lines on Monday condemned the gruesome rape and brutal murder of a 27-year old veterinarian in Hyderabad last week.....
A Delhi court on Tuesday issued death warrants against all four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case with the convicts to be hanged on January 22.....
"Before dying, Nirbhaya had asked me to ensure that her rapists should get such a punishment that this crime was not repeated ever," Nirbhaya's mother, Asha Devi, said on Thursday after the court directed four death-row convicts in the case to be hanged on March 20 at 5.30 a.m. ....
Hitting out at Mamata Banerjee, the BJP on Thursday expressed concern over the safety of women and girls in West Bengal saying what hope do they have when the chief minister herself is "protecting rapists and murderers". ....