December 16 Delhi Gang-rape

A missing hubcap on a wheel and a white bus - these were the clues that led the police to zero in on the vehicle in which a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was gang-raped in Delhi on December 16, 2012.

Three of the four men convicted in the 2012 gang-rape and killing of Nirbhaya today petitioned the United Nation's International Court of Justice (ICJ) in another eleventh-hour attempt to stall their hanging, scheduled on Friday.

The four men convicted in the gang-rape, torture and killing of a young medical student in Delhi in 2012 will be hanged soon, indicate preparations at Tihar Jail in Delhi. Legal options still available to the convicts, however, may stall the process.

The parents of 'Nirbhaya', the 23-year-old paramedic student who was gang-raped and murdered in December 2012, has requested a Delhi court to fast-track the procedure to hang all four convicts Delhi's Patiala House Court will hear the petition on March 2.

The Supreme Court reiterated on Monday that the three sets of dying declarations by Nirbhaya - the woman who was gang-raped in Delhi on December 16, 2012 - including the one made through gestures, were "true, voluntary and consistent".

The Supreme Court will decide today whether the four men, convicted for the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student in 2012 in Delhi, will be hanged or not.

The Supreme Court will today decide whether the four men sentenced to death for raping and torturing a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, triggering nationwide protests, deserve mercy. The top court will announce its verdict on a review plea filed by three of the four convicts seeking reduction of their death sentence to ...

Two of the four death row convicts in the December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder case today moved the Supreme Court for review of its verdict upholding the capital punishment awarded to them.

December 16, 2017, will mark five years of the brutal Delhi gang-rape incident that triggered nation-wide protests and led to formation of new laws on crimes against women in the country.

The four convicts in the December 16 Delhi gangrape case are fighting "depression" since the confirmation of their death sentence by the Supreme Court, even as their lawyers are pinning hopes on review petitions to be filed in the court.

Badri Nath Singh will finally sleep tonight. For almost five years, the father of a young woman who was raped on December 16, 2012, and died of injuries 13 days later, had slept fitfully.

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday favoured the existence of death penalty in the statutes, saying he was satisfied that it was invoked in the rarest of rare instance like the December 16 gang-rape case, over which there was a public outcry.

Union minister Maneka Gandhi today said the Supreme Court verdict in the December 16 gang-rape case will act as a "severe deterrent" against such heinous crimes.

Justice Dipak Misra, who led the Supreme Court bench that confirmed death to four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, is set to be the next Chief Justice of India in August.

"Those who did this to me, do not spare them" - These were the words that police officer Chaya Sharma heard from Nirbhaya, the young student gang-raped on a moving bus and tortured with an iron rod in December 2012.

A missing hubcap on a wheel and a white bus - these were the clues that led the police to zero in on the vehicle in which a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was gang-raped in Delhi on December 16, 2012.

Three of the four men convicted in the 2012 gang-rape and killing of Nirbhaya today petitioned the United Nation's International Court of Justice (ICJ) in another eleventh-hour attempt to stall their hanging, scheduled on Friday.

The four men convicted in the gang-rape, torture and killing of a young medical student in Delhi in 2012 will be hanged soon, indicate preparations at Tihar Jail in Delhi. Legal options still available to the convicts, however, may stall the process.

The parents of 'Nirbhaya', the 23-year-old paramedic student who was gang-raped and murdered in December 2012, has requested a Delhi court to fast-track the procedure to hang all four convicts Delhi's Patiala House Court will hear the petition on March 2.

The Supreme Court reiterated on Monday that the three sets of dying declarations by Nirbhaya - the woman who was gang-raped in Delhi on December 16, 2012 - including the one made through gestures, were "true, voluntary and consistent".

The Supreme Court will decide today whether the four men, convicted for the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student in 2012 in Delhi, will be hanged or not.

The Supreme Court will today decide whether the four men sentenced to death for raping and torturing a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, triggering nationwide protests, deserve mercy. The top court will announce its verdict on a review plea filed by three of the four convicts seeking reduction of their death sentence to ...

Two of the four death row convicts in the December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder case today moved the Supreme Court for review of its verdict upholding the capital punishment awarded to them.

December 16, 2017, will mark five years of the brutal Delhi gang-rape incident that triggered nation-wide protests and led to formation of new laws on crimes against women in the country.

The four convicts in the December 16 Delhi gangrape case are fighting "depression" since the confirmation of their death sentence by the Supreme Court, even as their lawyers are pinning hopes on review petitions to be filed in the court.

Badri Nath Singh will finally sleep tonight. For almost five years, the father of a young woman who was raped on December 16, 2012, and died of injuries 13 days later, had slept fitfully.

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday favoured the existence of death penalty in the statutes, saying he was satisfied that it was invoked in the rarest of rare instance like the December 16 gang-rape case, over which there was a public outcry.

Union minister Maneka Gandhi today said the Supreme Court verdict in the December 16 gang-rape case will act as a "severe deterrent" against such heinous crimes.

Justice Dipak Misra, who led the Supreme Court bench that confirmed death to four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, is set to be the next Chief Justice of India in August.

"Those who did this to me, do not spare them" - These were the words that police officer Chaya Sharma heard from Nirbhaya, the young student gang-raped on a moving bus and tortured with an iron rod in December 2012.