India.com News Desk | Feb 11, 2021, 10:52 AM IST
8 years later, a new report by NGO Oxfam India says that the funds have largely been underutilized and not reaching the women it's meant to safeguard.
India.com News Desk | Mar 17, 2020, 12:17 PM IST
In the plea, he had argued that he was arrested from Rajasthan on December 17, 2012, a day after the incident took place, and, as such, wasn't even present at the crime spot. He had also alleged that he was tortured in Tihar Jail.
India.com News Desk | Mar 5, 2020, 2:40 PM IST
The executions of the four convicts had earlier been deferred thrice due to strategic filing of mercy pleas and curative petitions by the convicts.
India.com News Desk | Feb 2, 2020, 9:03 AM IST
The MHA had moved the court on Saturday seeking a fresh death warrant for at least two convicts-Mukesh and Vinay-both of whom have exercised all their legal options. In its plea, it accused the convicts of 'taking law for a joyride.'
India.com News Desk | Jan 29, 2020, 12:01 AM IST
Mukesh had, on January 25, filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the rejection of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind. On Tuesday, arguing on his behalf, his lawyer Anjana Prakash alleged that he was 'repeatedly sexually assaulted in jail.'
India.com News Desk | Jan 28, 2020, 12:00 AM IST
President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected his mercy petition on January 17, just three days after the same was filed before him. However, due to this, the four convicts' scheduled January 22 execution was put off as according to prison rules, a death row convict can only be hanged 14 days after the rejection of his mercy plea.
India.com News Desk | Jan 24, 2020, 4:05 PM IST
AP Singh, the lawyer of Akshay, Pawan and Vinay-on Friday moved Patiala House Court, accusing prison authorities of not making available to them documents that are needed to file corrective pleas. The court will take up their plea against Tihar tomorrow.
India.com News Desk | Jan 18, 2020, 9:11 AM IST
The senior advocate attributed her 'suggestion' to her stand on the death penalty, of which she is a vocal critic. Sonia Gandhi has 'forgiven' Nalini, who was involved in the assassination of her husband, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
India.com News Desk | Jan 17, 2020, 9:29 AM IST
The four were shifted to separate single cells in jail number three, close to which is the hanging courtyard. Officials, however, have clarified that this doesn't mean that the four convicts will be hanged immediately.
India.com News Desk | Jan 13, 2020, 7:51 AM IST
The four convicts-Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta-will be hanged in Tihar at 7 AM on January 22. Two of them-Vinay and Mukesh-have filed curative petitions in the Supreme Court, which will take them up on Tuesday, against their death warrants.
India.com News Desk | Jan 7, 2020, 7:38 PM IST
Thanking the judicial system, Nirbhaya's grandfather said that even though the court took seven long years to complete the entire process of the trial, no one can say that the convicts were denied a chance to be heard.
Ritu Singh | Dec 15, 2019, 5:09 PM IST
According to statistics, a woman is raped every 20 minutes in India.
