Kathua Child Rape Case

The doctors who conducted a postmortem on the eight-year-old Kathua rape victim told a court here that the girl was sexually assaulted and she died of asphyxia, a lawyer has said.

Google and other social media platforms have done a great disservice to the nation by uploading contents which revealed the identity of an eight-year-old girl who was raped and killed in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, the Delhi High Court said Friday.

The trial in the gangrape and murder of an 8-year-old in Kathua, which triggered global condemnation, will be held in Punjab's Pathankot, the Supreme Court said today. The call for transfer came from the child's family as the issue triggered a backlash in Jammu and Kashmir and rallies were held in favour of the accused. "Fear and fair trial can't ...

Within hours of a cabinet shuffle in Jammu and Kashmir, new Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta debuted with a shocker on the Kathua eight-year-old's rape and murder. "Rasana is a chhoti si baat (minor)... We have to think this should never happen again and the child gets justice. There are many challenges like this facing the government. We shoul...

Amid the outrage over the Kathua and Unnao incidents, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lamented on Saturday that crimes against women were getting politicised based on the identity of the perpetrators.

There should be fair trial in the rape and murder of the 8-year-old child in Kathua and the case will be transferred out if there is any possibility that it might not happen, the Supreme Court said today. The horrific rape and murder of the child, which had evoked nationwide fury, reached the Supreme Court after the family's advocate said she had f...

Twelve days after the chargesheet on the Kathua rape and murder case, the Jammu and Kashmir police had to issue a statement, highlighting that the 8-year-old child was indeed raped. The step was taken to clamp down on a viral wave of fake news on social media and some sections of mainstream media that argued there was no rape.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday ripped into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, criticising it on multiple issues as he launched his year-long "Save the Constitution campaign". While the programme was seen as an outreach to the Dalit community, the Congress chief spoke of farmers, women, corruption and demanded a 15-minute debate with ...

Today, President Ram Nath Kovind has signed the executive order to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. The Union Cabinet on Saturday at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the ordinance and was waiting for the President's ...

Offenders who rape girls under 12 may now be subject to the death penalty in India, according to an ordinance passed by the cabinet Saturday after a nationwide furor over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl.

The father of an eight-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir in January, expressed hope of getting justice, after the Union Cabinet introduced death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.

As the centre clambered to introduce harsher punishment for child rapists to cap public outrage over sexual crimes, a group of 637 academics in India and abroad have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, telling him that his statements on the "monstrous crimes" had been "wholly inadequate, platitudinous" and gave "non-specific ass...

As the centre approved the death penalty for rapists of children below the age of 12 after weeks of public outrage over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, the state government said today it too was going to bring a similar ordinance.

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.

The doctors who conducted a postmortem on the eight-year-old Kathua rape victim told a court here that the girl was sexually assaulted and she died of asphyxia, a lawyer has said.

Google and other social media platforms have done a great disservice to the nation by uploading contents which revealed the identity of an eight-year-old girl who was raped and killed in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, the Delhi High Court said Friday.

The trial in the gangrape and murder of an 8-year-old in Kathua, which triggered global condemnation, will be held in Punjab's Pathankot, the Supreme Court said today. The call for transfer came from the child's family as the issue triggered a backlash in Jammu and Kashmir and rallies were held in favour of the accused. "Fear and fair trial can't ...

Within hours of a cabinet shuffle in Jammu and Kashmir, new Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta debuted with a shocker on the Kathua eight-year-old's rape and murder. "Rasana is a chhoti si baat (minor)... We have to think this should never happen again and the child gets justice. There are many challenges like this facing the government. We shoul...

Amid the outrage over the Kathua and Unnao incidents, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lamented on Saturday that crimes against women were getting politicised based on the identity of the perpetrators.

There should be fair trial in the rape and murder of the 8-year-old child in Kathua and the case will be transferred out if there is any possibility that it might not happen, the Supreme Court said today. The horrific rape and murder of the child, which had evoked nationwide fury, reached the Supreme Court after the family's advocate said she had f...

Twelve days after the chargesheet on the Kathua rape and murder case, the Jammu and Kashmir police had to issue a statement, highlighting that the 8-year-old child was indeed raped. The step was taken to clamp down on a viral wave of fake news on social media and some sections of mainstream media that argued there was no rape.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday ripped into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, criticising it on multiple issues as he launched his year-long "Save the Constitution campaign". While the programme was seen as an outreach to the Dalit community, the Congress chief spoke of farmers, women, corruption and demanded a 15-minute debate with ...

Today, President Ram Nath Kovind has signed the executive order to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. The Union Cabinet on Saturday at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the ordinance and was waiting for the President's ...

Offenders who rape girls under 12 may now be subject to the death penalty in India, according to an ordinance passed by the cabinet Saturday after a nationwide furor over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl.

The father of an eight-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir in January, expressed hope of getting justice, after the Union Cabinet introduced death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.

As the centre clambered to introduce harsher punishment for child rapists to cap public outrage over sexual crimes, a group of 637 academics in India and abroad have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, telling him that his statements on the "monstrous crimes" had been "wholly inadequate, platitudinous" and gave "non-specific ass...

As the centre approved the death penalty for rapists of children below the age of 12 after weeks of public outrage over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, the state government said today it too was going to bring a similar ordinance.

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.