Gangrape Case

Bilkis Bano today challenged in the Supreme Court the release of 11 men convicted of gang-raping her and killing her entire family in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

A local court in Kochi on Tuesday granted the police, five-day custody of the four accused in the recent gangrape case of a 19-year old model inside a moving car.

A Dalit gangrape survivor has alleged that she was subjected to casteist slurs and threatened by family members of one of the accused to withdraw the case, police said on Monday.

Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena today approved a request by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the city to file a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging the acquittal of the three men.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that one of the accused in the sensational gangrape and murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua was not a juvenile at the time of the offence and now can be tried afresh as an adult.

The premature release of 11 convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case has become part of political and electoral discourse in Gujarat in run-up to the next month's Assembly polls.

A businessman, who was arrested from Haryana in connection with the gangrape of a woman in the Andamans, was on Monday brought to Portblair on transit remand, police said.

A pregnant woman here was allegedly gang-raped by two people while returning home after giving lunch to her husband, police said on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court directed a former chief secretary of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Monday to move the trial court for anticipatory bail in a gangrape case filed by a 21-year-old woman against him and others.

The former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain was on Saturday grilled for the second consecutive day in connection with the alleged gangrape of a 21-year-old woman, an official said.

Former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain on Friday appeared before a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for questioning over gangrape charges against him.

Former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain arrived in Port Blair on Thursday, following a Calcutta High Court order to appear before a Special Investigation Team, which is probing alleged gangrape charges against him.

The Ghaziabad police had on Friday registered a case against the woman and three others for allegedly levelling a "fabricated" gangrape charge against five men with whom she is embroiled in a property dispute.

A government hospital doctor and a ward boy here have been booked for allegedly raping a woman after giving her sedatives, police said on Thursday.

A woman from Delhi was in hospital Wednesday after being allegedly raped by five men for two days in Ghaziabad, an incident that Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal said reminds her of the Nirbhaya case.

Bilkis Bano today challenged in the Supreme Court the release of 11 men convicted of gang-raping her and killing her entire family in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

A local court in Kochi on Tuesday granted the police, five-day custody of the four accused in the recent gangrape case of a 19-year old model inside a moving car.

A Dalit gangrape survivor has alleged that she was subjected to casteist slurs and threatened by family members of one of the accused to withdraw the case, police said on Monday.

Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena today approved a request by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the city to file a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging the acquittal of the three men.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that one of the accused in the sensational gangrape and murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua was not a juvenile at the time of the offence and now can be tried afresh as an adult.

The premature release of 11 convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case has become part of political and electoral discourse in Gujarat in run-up to the next month's Assembly polls.

A businessman, who was arrested from Haryana in connection with the gangrape of a woman in the Andamans, was on Monday brought to Portblair on transit remand, police said.

A pregnant woman here was allegedly gang-raped by two people while returning home after giving lunch to her husband, police said on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court directed a former chief secretary of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Monday to move the trial court for anticipatory bail in a gangrape case filed by a 21-year-old woman against him and others.

The former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain was on Saturday grilled for the second consecutive day in connection with the alleged gangrape of a 21-year-old woman, an official said.

Former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain on Friday appeared before a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for questioning over gangrape charges against him.

Former chief secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain arrived in Port Blair on Thursday, following a Calcutta High Court order to appear before a Special Investigation Team, which is probing alleged gangrape charges against him.

The Ghaziabad police had on Friday registered a case against the woman and three others for allegedly levelling a "fabricated" gangrape charge against five men with whom she is embroiled in a property dispute.

A government hospital doctor and a ward boy here have been booked for allegedly raping a woman after giving her sedatives, police said on Thursday.

A woman from Delhi was in hospital Wednesday after being allegedly raped by five men for two days in Ghaziabad, an incident that Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal said reminds her of the Nirbhaya case.