Edited by Janaki Fernandes (with inputs from agencies) | Friday May 3, 2013
The Supreme Court today said that the interview to a private channel given by the friend of the 23-year-old student, who was gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi in December, cannot be used as evidence in the case.
After gang-rape, India struggles to put words into action
Agence France-Presse | Monday April 8, 2013
A hundred days after India mourned the death of the medical student who was gang-raped and vowed to fight sex crimes, the torn clothes and tears of another woman bear testimony to a tide of violence that refuses to ebb.
Delhi gang-rape initiated introspection, says PM at conference on judicial reforms: Highlights
Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Sunday April 7, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today inaugurated a conference of chief ministers and judges in the national capital. The meet, presided over by Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir, aims to address pressing issues related to the country's justice deli...
Delhi gang-rape accused Vinay Sharma beaten in jail, hand fractured: lawyer
Reported by Sonal Mehrotra, Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Friday April 5, 2013
Vinay Sharma, one of the five adult men accused of raping a medical student on a bus in Delhi last December, was produced at the fast track court in Saket with a bandaged right hand. His lawyer has alleged that Vinay was beaten up by "other inmates a...
Show cause notices to senior Delhi Police officers in medical student's gang rape case
Press Trust of India | Monday April 1, 2013
Government has served show-cause notices to two senior IPS officers and several others asking them to explain why action should not be initiated against them for alleged dereliction of duty in connection with the December 16 gang-rape incident in New...
Delhi gang-rape trial: accused Mukesh rushed to hospital
Agence France-Presse | Monday March 25, 2013
A defendant in the New Delhi bus gang-rape trial was admitted to hospital on Monday with chest pains, a fortnight after his brother and co-accused was found dead in a prison cell, a report said.
Gang-rape accused charge sheeted in robbery case
Press Trust of India | Friday March 15, 2013
Delhi police filed a charge sheet against the accused in the December 16 gang-rape case in a separate case of robbery lodged against them for looting a vegetable seller before brutally assaulting the medical student.
Police had info about possible attack on Ram Singh, other suspects: sources
Edited by Surabhi Malik | Wednesday March 13, 2013
Two months ago, the Delhi Police allegedly intercepted calls from a Tihar Jail inmate, who was illegally using the phone of a jail employee. In one conversation the inmate, say sources, hinted that there could be an attack on the five men accused of ...
Delhi gang-rape case: four other accused write to Home Minister, demand more security
Reported by Tanima Biswas, edited by Samira Shaikh | Tuesday March 12, 2013
After Ram Singh, one of the men accused of brutally gang-raping a medical student in Delhi was found hanging in his Tihar Jail cell yesterday, four other men facing trial in the case and lodged at Tihar have written to the Home Minister and Delhi's p...
India rape suspect's family says his death wasn't suicide
Heather Timmons and Niharika Mandhana, The New York Times | Tuesday March 12, 2013
The case of a fatal gang-rape aboard a bus in December, which set off an uproar across India, took a surprising turn on Monday when the body of a suspect in the attack was found hanging from a bedsheet noose in his jail cell. Officials called the dea...
Women's safety a priority? Anti-rape law delayed again
Edited by Surabhi Malik | Tuesday March 12, 2013
A new proposal for tough anti-rape laws has been delayed again by the government, which has been keen to telegraph its commitment to improving safety for women since the fatal gang-rape of a student on a Delhi bus triggered protests and a call for ch...
Delhi gang-rape case: three cellmates slept through Ram Singh's suicide, claim officials
Reported by Alok Pandey, Tanima Biswas (with inputs from Agencies); Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Monday March 11, 2013
The main suspect in the fatal gang rape of a medical student on a Delhi bus, an attack that triggered angry protests and new laws to punish crimes against women, was discovered hanging in his prison by a constable at 5 am, jail officials told NDTV.
After Ram Singh's death, other suspects ask to be moved from Tihar Jail
Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Monday March 11, 2013
Ram Singh, the man described by the Delhi Police as the mastermind of the fatal gang-rape of a medical student in Delhi, an attack that stunned India and stirred angry protests, was found dead in his cell at Tihar Jail this morning. Officials say he ...
Delhi gang-rape case: murder, not suicide, says Ram Singh's lawyer; family wants CBI inquiry
Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Monday March 11, 2013
The main suspect in the fatal gang rape of a medical student on a Delhi bus, an attack that triggered angry protests and new laws to punish crimes against women, allegedly committed suicide in jail early this morning. Ram Singh's family and lawyers ...
Delhi gang-rape main accused Ram Singh allegedly used his own clothes to hang himself in Tihar Jail
Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Monday March 11, 2013
In a huge security lapse, Ram Singh, one of the six men accused of brutally gang-raping a medical student in a moving bus in Delhi last December, has allegedly committed suicide at Tihar Jail, where he was lodged. He reportedly used his own clothes t...
