'Resurrection in today’s post-truth world is how and what we remember. The poem is a reminder. It immortalizes the act of witnessing it as we did in various ways'.
The Uttar Pradesh court has convicted the prime accused Sandeep for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. He has not been convicted of rape or murder.
Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan was arrested in October 2020 while he was on his way to Hathras, home to the Dalit woman who had died after being allegedly gang-raped.
Recently, a special court acquitted three of the four accused in the Hathras gangrape and murder case. The three men are back in the village. A long and arduous battle lies ahead for the girl’s family. Her ashes wait for...
The case pertains to the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit woman by four upper caste men in Bulgarhi village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district.
Mocking the BJP's constant claim that the state benefited because the same party led the governments in UP and at the Centre, he said, “This double-engine government has completely failed. These double engines are...
Special Judge Trilok Pal Singh noted in his order that since the girl was in a condition to continue to talk for eight days after the incident, prime accused Sandeep can't be said to have the intent to kill her, therefore...
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In Bulgarhi, where upper castes are in the majority, the victim’s family finds little sympathy. Not even other Dalit families side with them. This is a potent weapon for the accused.
Ostracised in upper caste-majority village and guarded round-the-clock by CRPF, life for family is now a prison
One year after Hathras, father of Dalit woman refuses to immerse ashes in Ganga till accused are ‘hanged’. Living in fear and waiting for justice, family...
He had visited his ailing mother in February after the Supreme Court granted him five-day bail.
An extraordinary story unfolds, mostly away from public eyes: a journalist is condemned to seemingly endless prison for merely trying to report news. Even a...
The Supreme Court makes clear that scribe Siddique Kappan will be sent back to Mathura jail after recovery.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to seek instructions from the state government on its suggestion and posted the...
The direction came on the application moved by a man whose deceased wife's photo was being circulated on various social media platforms wrongly depicting her...
The 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped by four upper-caste men in Hathras on September 14. She died on September 29 at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital...
The court also said that it would consider transferring the proceedings out of Hathras for ensuring a free and fair trial in the case.
The Odisha rape victim was just 3-year-old, Banda victim was 8-year-old, Hathras victim was just 19, Bulandshahr girl who was raped and then set on fire was...
Siddique Kappan gets bail on his birthday
Siddique Kappan was arrested in October while he was on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the alleged gang-rape of a Dalit woman.
RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary re-lives the day the police rained blows on him on his way to Hathras
Kapil Sibal, appearing for the journalists' body, said that the mother of Kappan was unconscious and was wanting to see her son.
The 19-year-old victim in the Hathras case died at a Delhi hospital after she was allegedly raped by four men from her village on September 14 last year.
'I tell women again and again that they should never go out at odd hours under anyone's influence,' commission member Chandramukhi Devi said
On Sunday, the 50-year-old woman who had gone to a temple was found dead under mysterious circumstances.
