Various factors such as time taken in getting required approvals from competent authorities, procedure to be followed for award of contract, disruptions due to unforeseen reasons such as one created by Covid are cited as the...
Law was amended to bring stricter punishments and broaden the scope of offences. Yet these steps have fallen short of deterring crimes against women in the decade since the rape of a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in...
Advocate Ajay Prakash Singh says he also fights for the rights of the rape victims but is against the death penalty.
In the decade since the heinous Nirbhaya gang rape case, the Mumbai Police have increased their street presence to make the megapolis safer for women and children.
Delhi Police should be ashamed of their investigation that after 10 years, the culprits of the Chhawla rape case were released.
The development prompted the opposition Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to attack the Shinde-led government, as they asked if the security of the ruling legislators was more important than...
After 10 years of Nirbhaya, a lack of stricter implementation of laws and anti-feminist politics have not left much room for a change in society.
The three men freed by the Supreme Court were termed as 'predators' and as moving on the streets 'looking for prey' by Delhi High Court, as per reports.
Nearly a decade since the infamous ‘Nirbhaya kand’ which led to a string of amendments to criminal law to prevent such instances from happening, not much...
2019 Hyderabad Encounter: The Supreme Court-appointed judicial panel puts the cops in the dock, saying the killings of the accused were intentional.
The extraordinary story of cheating death, again and again and again and again...
As the world celebrates Human Rights Day today, here are a few films from India which have brought to the forefront issues of basic civil liberties.
In 2020, the top court faced a barrage of criticism over allegations of not acting swiftly towards the plight of lakhs of migrant workers.
'Nothing has changed,' he says, eight years after a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was raped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi
The incident took place last week and the accused, all residents of a locality where the girl lives, had recorded the act on a mobile phone.
When one sees me on screen I hope he or she only sees and feels the character, not Shefali
Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi says nothing has changed in our country when it comes to women's security.
Capital punishment for rape leaves me more scared than before -- for self and society -- writes poet-playwright Annie Zaidi, after the Nirbhaya hanging.
The 2012 Delhi gang-rape case finally came to an end in the wee hours of Friday morning as four Nirbhaya case convicts were hanged to death in Delhi's Tihar...
'Now when my son is dead, I believe courts will give a fair hearing to me,' said father of one of the convicts.
Kejriwal said there was a need to strengthen the police system in the country
Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) were executed for the savage assault in an empty moving bus on the...
Talking to reporters at her house, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi said that justice was delayed, but not denied, and added that they would continue their fight...
While dismissing the plea, the bench said pending petitions of the convicts in various fora is untenable in law as a ground to stay the execution.
