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.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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.