Robin Vadakkumchery, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping & impregnating a minor girl, has moved Kerala HC, seeking to marry the survivor & take care of the child.
From the victim naming her father as accused to recanting her own statement, the rape case against Kerala priest Robin Vadakkumchery unfolded in a confounding manner.
Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Way back in the eighties, I remember a news story on Doordarshan. A police constable had raped a blind girl. So the court ordered him to marry her. Even as a child I felt that this was compounding a rape with a bigger crime. And the victim was being forced into a lifetime of rape. Such acts need to be made completely illegal and the courts should not be willing accomplices in this.
Way back in the eighties, I remember a news story on Doordarshan. A police constable had raped a blind girl. So the court ordered him to marry her. Even as a child I felt that this was compounding a rape with a bigger crime. And the victim was being forced into a lifetime of rape. Such acts need to be made completely illegal and the courts should not be willing accomplices in this.