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Nirbhaya verdict to serve as a lesson for perpetrators of violence against
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 16 (ANI/NewsVoir): Sarvesh Tiwari, General Secretary Nirbhaya Jyoti Trust (founded by Nirbhaya's parents), has said that the country`s judicial system needs reforms to ensure quick justice to the millions of victims in our country who have been waiting for years. He we
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KTS Tulsi accuses Govt for causing delay in disposing of the mercy petitio
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 16 (ANI): Congress Rajya Sabha MP KTS Tulsi has accused the central government of causing the delay in disposing of the mercy petition moved by Mukesh Kumar Singh, one of the death row convicts in the Nirbahaya gang-rape and murder case.
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Nirbhaya's mother requests President to reject mercy plea, ensure hanging
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 16 (ANI): Asha Devi, the mother of 2012 gang-rape victim on Thursday expressed her disappointment over the recent development in the execution of four rape convicts and requested the President to dismiss their mercy petition and ensure their hanging on January 22.
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Hangman from Meerut will execute Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts in Tihar Jail
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Jan 8 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh government has conceded to the request of Tihar Jail authorities for availing the services of hangman from Meerut jail to execute the death sentence of Nirbhaya rape convicts.
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Tihar Jail to conduct dummy execution of Nirbhaya convicts before Jan 22
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 8 (ANI): Tihar Jail authorities will conduct dummy execution of Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts in coming days ahead of their execution on January 22. Earlier, it was scheduled to be held today.
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Delhi HC grants relief to rape convicts on survivor's application
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 4 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has granted relief to two men, named Ganesh and Kismat Ali, convicted for raping a woman after she expressed no objection over the reduction of their sentence.
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Delhi: People take out protest march demanding death sentence to rapists
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 12 (ANI): Hundreds of people, most of them women, took out a protest march on Thursday demanding death sentence to rape convicts.
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Swati Maliwal continues hunger strike over women safety
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 12 (ANI): Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chief Swati Maliwal, whose hunger strike against rape incidents in the country entered its 10th day on Thursday, said that the government has not fulfilled her demands to punish the rape convicts.
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Rape convicts under POCSO should not have right to file mercy petition: Pr
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Sirhoi (Rajasthan) [India], Dec 6 (ANI): Terming women safety as a "serious issue", President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said that rape convicts under POCSO Act should not have right to file mercy petition.
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Rishi Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar call for timely execution of capital punishmen
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 01 (ANI): After news of the rape and killing of a woman veterinary doctor in Telangana's Ranga Reddy district made the headlines, many B-towners, have expressed their anguish and distress over the heinous crime.
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Delhi court issues notices to Nirbhaya rape convicts on victim's parents'
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 29 (ANI): A Delhi court on Friday issued notices to four convicts in Nirbhaya gangrape case on a plea filed by victim's parents seeking the execution to be expedited.
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Death sentence of rape convicts mitigated by Mumbai court
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] July 29 (ANI): The Bombay High Court on Monday commuted the death sentence of two rape convicts into life imprisonment.
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