Rape Cases In India

VHP leader Sadhvi Prachi calls Jawaharlal Nehru 'biggest rapist' in response to Rahul Gandhi's rape capital remark

Stooping to a new low in political discourse, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Sadhvi Prachi on Sunday said that Jawaharlal Nehru was the 'biggest rapist'

Death penalty for child rapists does not mean swifter or better justice: Reporting of rape deterred, not act

About 90 percent of child rape cases were pending trial in India in 2016, no more than 28 percent of such cases ended in conviction, and there is a 20-year backlog in bringing cases to trial, the latest available national crime data show.

Kathua and Unnao rapes: Ridiculed for being 'maun', Manmohan turns tables on Modi, tells him to 'speak more often'

Among the critics of Modi, the latest is former prime minister Manmohan Singh — someone who has been criticised several times over the way he speaks. Taking a dig at Modi, Manmohan said that the prime minister "should follow his own advice to me" and "speak more often".

Maintaining public register of sex offenders is red herring; a culture that doesn't tolerate rape will be more effective

Sex offender registries as a legal mechanism also make the disturbing and incorrect assumption that “once a rapist, always a rapist”.

Nagaland lynching: Curfew lifted in Dimapur, normalcy returns to city

Normalcy returned to Dimapur town with authorities lifting prohibitory orders imposed in the town in the wake of lynching of a rape accused.

Uber rape case: Delhi court re-examines victim for 3rd day, father alleges harassment

The re-examination of the woman, allegedly raped by a driver of Uber cab service provider, continued for the third day on Monday in a Delhi court with her father complaining that his daughter was being made to relive the incident again and again which is proving tough for her.

India's Daughter: Here's why we should be happy BBC made this 'shaming' documentary

Indians should be happy that BBC 4 made and screened India's Daughter because it shamed the country just as the way Channel 4 shamed Sri Lanka.

Badaun case: CBI submits closure report and evidences before court

The CBI submitted evidences in a POCSO court to corroborate its "closure report" that the two teenaged cousins in Badaun found hanging from a tree were not raped or murdered.

Delhi Uber rape case won't be last: Face it, women aren't safe in lawless India

The reason, besides the overall socio-economic vulnerability of women, is that we are living in a lawless society. The Uber rape case just established that.

Back to the bad old ways: Delhi police refused to file FIR in JNU rape case

In another incident of sexual assault at the JNU in Delhi, a 25-year-old PhD student has alleged that she was repeatedly raped by a research scholar.