Indian diaspora seeks strong steps against rapists

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 00:12

Indian diaspora was shaken by the brutal gang-rape of a young woman on Dec 16, 2012.

NCP defends Ajit Pawar`s controversial remarks on rapists

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 21:42

NCP defended Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar`s controversial remarks insinuating that private parts of rapists be severed.

Ajit Pawar stokes row with his remarks on rapists

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 00:49

Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Monday kicked up a controversy with his remarks insinuating that private parts of rapists be severed.

Now three cops turn rapists; teenager gang-raped in J&K, two arrested

Last Updated: Saturday, September 14, 2013, 18:38

A day after death sentence was given to four accused in the Delhi gang-rape case and it was expected that this verdict may act as a deterrent, three police men in J&K allegedly abducted and gang-raped a teenage girl.

Target is to hang Barasat rapists in a month: Mamata Banerjee

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 21:19

West Bengal CM her govt was determined to "hang" within a month the perpetrators of the gang-rape and murder of a teenage girl in North 24-Parganas.

Don`t ask for death penalty but certainty of punishment: Azmi

Last Updated: Monday, April 29, 2013, 16:58

Death penalty for rapists will delay the process of justice and instead the need of the hour is to ask for certainty of punishment, feels noted actress Shabana Azmi.

Hang child rapists within a month: Uma Bharti

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 00:08

Uma Bharti demanded that child rapists be hanged within a month after fast-tracking trials in such cases.

Death penalty for child rapists should be consider

Last Updated: Sunday, April 21, 2013, 15:45

BJP leader Sushma Swaraj`s demand for death penalty to child rapists on Sunday got the backing of CPI(M) which said it was open to the idea.

Five Delhi girls brutalised in April, 393 rapes since Jan 1

Last Updated: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 19:21

The five-year Delhi girl, brutalised by a neighbour earlier this week, is the fifth minor to have fallen prey to rapists this month. In many of the 393 rapes since Jan 1, the accused were known to the victims, police records show.

`Court sympathy for rapists will encourage others`

Last Updated: Sunday, March 24, 2013, 12:09

Ruling out any sympathy for rapists, Delhi HC has said that those who have ruined the lives of young girls for the "satisfaction of their sexual lust" should not be let off lightly.

Abolishing death penalty: Par panel members for broader debate

Last Updated: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 20:35

Majority of the members of a Parliamentary panel on Thursday supported capital punishment for rapists in cases where the victim either dies or is left in a persistent vegetative state.

VHP demands sacking of Shinde, death penalty for rapists

Last Updated: Friday, February 8, 2013, 00:40

VHP passed a number of resolutions at the Maha Kumbh here today, demanding sacking of Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde for his `Hindu terror` remarks and sought death penalty for rapists.