All posts tagged "Nirbhaya Case"

9 years of Nirbhaya gang-rape case: From December 16, 2012 to March 20, 2020; a look at how the victim got justice

December 16, 2012, turned out to be a nightmare for India after a 23-year-old woman (named Nirbhaya) was gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi.

Crimes against women: The time for change is now

Just as the outrage over the gangrape and brutal murder of a 19-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district had begun to wane from popular attention,...

Nirbhaya Case: UN asks countries to stop using of capital punishment

The UN has called on all nations to stop the use of capital punishment or put a moratorium on it, a day after four convicts in...

Women across India will feel safe now: Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi after convicts’ hanging

All the four convicts in the Nirbaya gang-rape and murder case -- Vinay Sharma, Akshay Singh, Pawan Gupta, and Mukesh Singh -- were hanged to death...

SC rejects petition seeking Nirbhaya convict’s organ for donation

The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a petition seeking donation of organs by the four convicts in Nirbhaya gang-rape case.The court while dismissing the plea...

Delhi court disposes of Nirbhaya convicts’ plea seeking documents from Tihar jail

The Patiala House Court on Saturday disposed of the application of the Nirbhaya convicts’ lawyer A.P.Singh, saying “no further directions for supply of any documents” were...

Nirbhaya case: Dec 16 rapists to hang, Supreme Court rejects review petitions of death row convicts

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld its judgment on the death sentence of three of the four convicts in the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape case...

Imaging India’s rape victims

By Ariel Sophia Bardi Breakthrough India tried to reset the narrative on imaging rape, sexual violence through a social media campaign – #RedrawMisogyny On a balmy Sunday in...

Great team work by Rampur, UP police; saves woman with her daughter from another Nirbhaya case