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Priyadarshini Mattoo’s family relives her brutal death as killer seeks freedom: 'What signs of reformation has he shown?’

July 16, 2025 4:02 pm

In 1996, Priyadarshini Mattoo was raped and killed by her college senior, Santosh Kumar Singh. He was later sentenced to life in prison. Nearly three decades later, on July 1, the Delhi High Court directed the Sentence Review Board to consider afresh Singh’s case for premature release.

In 11 years, nothing changed on women’s safety: Father of December 16 gangrape victim

December 16, 2023 9:50 am

On this day in 2012, India awoke to news of the horror that five people and a juvenile had subjected the paramedical student and her male friend to aboard a moving bus in south Delhi, triggering massive protests throughout the country and shock across the world.

Ghaziabad: Security guard at high-rise dies after rape by supervisor

August 30, 2023 9:10 am

ACP Agrawal said: “We have lodged an FIR under IPC Section 376D pertaining to gangrape based on a complaint from the woman's kin. She had stated to them that two other persons other than Ajay had raped her...the FIR has been lodged against Ajay and two other unidentified persons.”

Delhi woman raped by former colleague and his friends in separate incidents

August 23, 2023 12:03 pm

According to the police, the woman then approached one of his friends to delete the photo. The second accused, on the pretext of helping her with the matter, also allegedly raped her and threatened her.

Delhi court sentences priest to life for raping two minors, cites lines from Maya Angelou’s autobiography

August 06, 2021 11:52 pm

The convict, Vishva Bandhu, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Additional Sessions Judge Vijeta Singh Rawat in a sentencing order dated July 16. He was arrested in this case in 2014 for repeatedly raping two minors aged about 7 and 9 years old.

Man 'rapes 62-year-old vegetable vendor, stabs her to death', arrested

June 15, 2021 8:43 am

Police said the accused was identified using CCTV footage and an initial probe revealed that he allegedly stabbed the victim 25 times to ensure his crime was never detected.

Delhi: 2 who raped woman and her daughter, man who shot video arrested

January 05, 2021 5:48 am

According to police, the incident took place on the night of December 29 and 30. “The crime had not been reported by the victims at first. It was only after the video surfaced that we made efforts to locate the 35-year-old woman and her 18-year-old daughter,” said DCP (Northwest) Vijayanta Arya.

Her fight: 'What was my daughter’s role in world?’

January 26, 2020 12:20 pm

As death warrant is issued for the accused in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case that shook a nation, Ankita Dwivedi Johri tells two stories of wait — a mother’s as she hopes to find closure after an agonising battle for justice, and that of families of the accused as they make a desperate cry for reprieve

5-year-old’s rape: 2 held guilty, Delhi court says ‘grotesque crime’

January 19, 2020 2:18 am

Manoj and Pradeep were convicted under Sections 376 (D), 376 (2) (i), 363, 342, 201, 307 and 34 of the IPC and Section 6 of the POCSO Act. The offences carry a maximum punishment of life imprisonment. The court fixed January 30 for arguments on quantum of sentence.

Man gets 7 years in prison for digital rape of US national

February 27, 2019 12:43 am

Additional Sessions Judge, Special Fast Track Court, Harish Dhudani also imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on the convict, directing that the amount be paid to the victim.

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