The Nirbhaya case pertains to the 2012 gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student. The case shook the country, led to nationwide protests, and demands for better security and laws to deal with such cases.
Following Union minister Smriti Irani blaming AAP govt for the delay in the execution of the 16 December gangrape convicts, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said it wasn't right to do politics on the issue.
The Delhi govt said it cannot carry out the death sentence against all four of the 16 December gangrape convicts until the pending mercy plea of one of the convicts is decided on.
There’s a host of legal options 16 December gang-rape convicts can use to get off death row. ThePrint tells you why hanging won’t take place on 22 January.
Four of the convicts now face the death penalty. One of them allegedly committed suicide in 2013 while another, a minor during the crime, was released in 2015.
The byelection follows the death of MLA Rajendra Dholakia, a Gujarati businessman-turned-politician of the BJD who also served as a minister in the previous government.
Cooperation Ministry takes a step towards financial inclusion with Sahkar DigiPay and Sahkar DigiLoan. They will enable faster and seamless access to financial services in small towns.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
All is fair in love and war. And this is war against being killed wrongfully. Killing someone just because he did not follow rules created by us is great.
Oh, wow! The member of a gang that brutally raped and disemboweled a young woman with a pipe, deserves to be spared the death penalty because he was “sexually abused in prison,” eh? None of this sexual abuse ever came up before a date was set for the execution, and you now have a cabal of campaigners for rapist-murderers” rights out to protect the most distasteful dregs of Indian society, justice for the victim be damned! Neither the Indian legal system nor the lot trying to play killers’ comrades are covering themselves in glory. This is as ugly as an exercise in misusing the law to deny justice to a victim gets. India needs to be ashamed that it lets distortions like this define it to the world.
All is fair in love and war. And this is war against being killed wrongfully. Killing someone just because he did not follow rules created by us is great.
Oh, wow! The member of a gang that brutally raped and disemboweled a young woman with a pipe, deserves to be spared the death penalty because he was “sexually abused in prison,” eh? None of this sexual abuse ever came up before a date was set for the execution, and you now have a cabal of campaigners for rapist-murderers” rights out to protect the most distasteful dregs of Indian society, justice for the victim be damned! Neither the Indian legal system nor the lot trying to play killers’ comrades are covering themselves in glory. This is as ugly as an exercise in misusing the law to deny justice to a victim gets. India needs to be ashamed that it lets distortions like this define it to the world.