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Ashok Gehlot’s rape remark shocker: Swati Maliwal, BJP chastise Rajasthan CM
Fp Staff • 3 years agoGehlot said that the incidents of murder after rape have increased across the country after the law to hang the rapist came into force following the 2012 Delhi gang rape or Nirbhaya case
How courts can stop judgments on death sentence from being challenged
Shishir Tripathi • 3 years agoThere have been several genuine attempts by the Supreme Court to classify cases that can be seen fit for awarding the death penalty
Asha Devi, families of other survivors and victims of rape are banishing the silence around sexual violence
Sneha Rout • 5 years agoAs Rebecca Solnit writes, “Women are instructed by the way victims are treated and by the widespread tolerance of the epidemic of violence that their value is low, that speaking up may result in more punishment, that silence may be a better survival strategy."
2012 Delhi gangrape: SC rejects curative plea of death row convict Akshay Singh; application seeking stay on execution also dismissed
• 5 years agoAkshay now has the option to move a mercy plea before the President. He was the third convict in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case to move the curative plea after Mukesh Kumar Singh and Vinay Kumar Sharma.
Lawyer of 2012 Delhi gangrape death row convicts files plea seeking stay on 1 Feb executions, claims all four can't be hanged till legal remedies run out
Fp Staff • 5 years agoAlso on Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear the curative petition of another convict in the Delhi gangrape case, Akshay Thakur, who is seeking commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.
2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case: Supreme Court set to hear curative petition of death row convict Akshay Thakur today
• 5 years agoThe Supreme Court will on Thursday hear the curative petition of one of the four 2012 Delhi gang-rape death row convicts, Akshay Thakur who is seeking commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.
SC dismisses 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Mukesh Singh's appeal against rejection of mercy plea; fellow convict files curative petition challenging execution
Fp Staff • 5 years agoAlso on Wednesday, Akshay Singh, another fellow convict in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case challenged his execution scheduled on 1 February by filing a curative plea, the last legal resort in the Supreme Court.
2012 Delhi gangrape case: SC begins hearing convict Mukesh Singh's plea against rejection of mercy petition
• 5 years agoThe mentioning officer considered the urgency of 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Mukesh Singh's plea and ordered its listing before a three-judge bench comprising Justices R Bhanunathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna at 12.30 pm on Tuesday.
2012 Delhi gangrape case: SC to hear death row convict Mukesh Singh's plea against dismissal of mercy petition today
• 5 years agoThe Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday the plea of Mukesh Kumar Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case, against the dismissal of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind
2012 Delhi gangrape victim's mother breaks down as court adjourns hearing on issuing death warrants of convicts
• 5 years agoNirbhaya's mother broke down outside the Patiala House court on Wednesday after the court adjourned for 7 January the hearing on the issuance of death warrants against the four convicts in the Delhi gangrape-and-murder case