Asha Devi, mother of Nirbhaya, who was gang-raped and murdered in 2012, said on Saturday that rape incidents have increased three-fold in the last 10 years.
The former Prime Minister made the remarks in the backdrop of Salman Shehbaz's return to the country after ending over four years of self-imposed exile in London, according to The News International.
Mohali Police on Saturday got two-days remand of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in connection with a case of criminally intimidating and threatening an owner of a hotel.
The award was received by G. Asok Kumar, the Director General of the Namami Gange project during a function at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada on World Restoration Day on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court has dismissed the plea of Bilkis Bano seeking a review of its earlier order by which it had asked the Gujarat government to consider the plea for the remission of 11 convicts in a gangrape case under 1992 policy. A bench of judges headed by Justice Ajay Rastogi dismissed
Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar urging them to suspend today's Parliamentary business to discuss women's safety issues as Friday marked 10 years of Nirbhaya gang rape.
Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and his aide Bhim Singh were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by the Gangster Court in Ghazipur in five cases related to murder and attempt to murder on Thursday.
While talking to ANI, IGP B Satheesh Balan said, "Money was stolen from a real estate company a while back, and we had arrested many people in this case. But the prime accused gangster Vikas was absconding. Today he was nabbed from Gurugram."
The father of deceased Sagar Dhankar has moved a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking transfer of the murder case of his son to fast track court for time-bound disposal like the Nirbhaya gang rape case.