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BJP MP Gautam Gambhir said that all should take responsibility across party lines and not politicise rape incidents.

Chief Justice of India SA Bobde today condemned the practice of extrajudicial killings, saying that justice loses its very character when it takes the form of revenge. The observation, made at an event in Jodhpur, comes amid a raging debate over the killing of four accused in the Telangana rape and murder case early on Friday.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday called the death of the rape victim from Unnao "shameful" for every Indian and said he hoped that the Uttar Pradesh government will hang the culprits "to set an example" for the society.

There are massive protests by angry locals at a village in Unnao as two ministers from the Yogi Adityanath government arrived this evening to visit the family of a 23-year-old woman, who died last night after being set on fire by the men accused of raping her.

Telangana Rape Accused Killing: There is a famous Kishore Kumar song "Yeh public hai yeh sab jaanti hai". Public ain't so naive, tweeted Former cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar.

Buoyed by the success in the recent bypolls, which the ruling Trinamool Congress fought campaigning against the NRC, Mamata Banerjee's party has now eyed the Citizenship Ammendment Bill to reach out to voters ahead of the 2021 assembly polls, to corner the BJP.

A team from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Saturday began on-the-spot investigation into the alleged police encounter in which four men accused in the gang-rape and murder of a woman veterinarian, were killed near here. Official sources said the team visited a government hospital at Mahabubnagar, where the bodies of the accused were kept after post-mortem.

A case was registered against fouraccused, arrested for the alleged rape and murder of a womanveterinarian near in Hyderabad last month and killed in an encounter,for ''attacking'' the police personnel.

As outrage grows over the death of a 23-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh's Unnao, who was raped and set on fire, her distraught father has just one request from the government - swift action against the accused.

India has called for making the selection of peacekeepers for UN operations more stringent, emphasising professional competence in order to make them more effective.

The West Bengal government will be renovating unused airfields in the state to make them fit for operating light aircraft, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today.

Former head of Kashmir Chambers of Commerce Mubeen Shah, who was detained under the stringent Public Safety Act in the aftermath of the August 5 developments in Jammu and Kashmir, was released on Saturday after the Union Territory's administration "temporararily released" him for three months, officials said.

Two incidents of violence have been reported in Jharkhand today where polling for the second phase on 20 Assembly seats is underway.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over what he called the "breakdown of institutional structures".Mr Gandhi's comments come after a day after the killing of the four accused in the gang-rape and murder of a young veterinarian in Telangana.

Jailed Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Yadav today took a swipe at Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi after a video of the BJP leader ducking a question on crime against women was shared widely on social media.