Rapists

Rapists are terrorists, kill them publicly: AAP's Kapil Mishra

An AAP Minister has demanded a law for "public" killing of rapists saying they should be treated as "terrorists" while also advocating the need to give arms training to women.

India's growing graph of violence: Our regressive law needs to change and think beyond religion

There is no religion in violence. When you take a life in such a manner you are a killer. Not a Hindu or a Muslim or a minority sect or some damn protected species.

In the aftermath of the Bengaluru gangrape, here are the unanswered questions hanging over the city

The Bengaluru rape case of a BPO employee travelling by a Temp Traveler raises several questions about the infrastructure in the city.

India's Daughter documentary: We need to go beyond BBC's nauseating moralising

The government is scoring too many self-goals in the way it is reacting to the BBC documentary on the Nirbhaya case. The problem is the west knows how to use our own problems against us, but we don't know how to create a strong state that can enforce its own laws or deal with the hijacking of our internal agendas by the west for its own purposes

Released on bail, alleged rapists set 17-year-old girl ablaze for reporting incident

A teenaged rape victim was Thursday admitted to the civil hospital in Punjab's industrial town of Ludhiana with nearly 75 percent burn injuries after her alleged rapists set her on fire, police said.

NCW backs govt proposal to treat juvenile rapists as adults

Even though the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has opposed the Women and Child Development ministry's proposal about trying juveniles involved in heinous crimes as adults, the National Commission for Women today backed the government's move.

Mulayam Singh is very soft on rapists: Modi

"We have to be tough on rapists, but Mulayam Singh is very soft on them," Modi said.

Gurgaon: Woman abducted, forced to drink alcohol and gangraped

Barely a month after a Delhi court sentenced the December 16 gangrape accused to death, a 25-year-old woman was reportedly abducted by a group of men in Gurgaon, raped and then dumped on the road.

Rape cases cannot be compromised: Supreme Court

An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam ruled that such compromises, if entered into, are per se illegal and the provision for lesser punishment for heinous offences in exceptional cases cannot be treated in a casual or a cavalier manner by the trial court.

A 12-step guide to living in fear for the fearless Mumbai girl

After the gangrape in Mumbai yesterday, here's a guideline to Mumbai girls for doing what every other woman in India does - living in fear.