Shakti Mills

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  Life Term "To Repent": Mumbai Gang-Rape Convicts' Death Penalty Commuted

  Bombay High Court today commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to 3 convicts in the 2013 gang-rape case of a 22-year-old photojournalist inside the defunct Shakti Mills compound in central Mumbai.

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  2013 Mumbai Gang-Rape Juvenile Convict Arrested For Stabbing Man

  A convict in the 2013 Shakti Mills gangrape case in Mumbai and his associate were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly stabbing and injuring a man here over drugs, a police official said.

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  Bombay High Court Upholds Death Penalty For Repeat Rape Convicts

  The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of a section of the Indian Penal Code, which states that a repeat rape offender can be imprisoned for the rest of his life or sentenced to death.

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  "Rape A Very Serious Offence": Centre Defends Death Penalty In Court

  Justifying the legislature's decision to provide death penalty for repeat offence of rape, the Union government on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that rape laws had been amended in 2013 to introduce a powerful deterrent against such crimes.

• Shakti Mills Gang-Rapes: Two Juveniles Convicted, Sent To Correction School

  Two minors have been convicted for the gang-rapes of a photojournalist and telephone operator in the abandoned Shakti Mills compound in Mumbai last year.

• Shakti Mill Gang-Rape: High Court to Hear Confirmation of Death Penalty on July 17

  Bombay High Court today posted for hearing on July 17 a petition seeking confirmation of the capital punishment awarded to three youths who are common convicts in two cases of gangrape on the Shakti Mills premises in 2013.

• Maharashtra Home Minister Ignites Controversy with Comments on Women's Safety

  Even if a policeman is posted in every home, atrocities against women cannot be contained -this was the controversial assessment offered by Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil today. His remark was made in the state legislature.

• Mumbai gang rape prosecutor criticises Mulayam Singh Yadav for rape remark

  Public prosecutor in the Shakti Mills gang rape case today criticised Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for his rape remark saying that such statements would provoke criminals to commit serious crimes.

• Outrage after Abu Azmi says 'women having sex outside marriage should be hanged'

  Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi has earned widespread criticism for his controversial comments on rape, including condemnation at home from his son and daughter in law.

• Mulayam Singh talking rubbish: Lalu Prasad

  Mulayam Singh Yadav is talking "rubbish", RJD chief Lalu Prasad said on Friday, reacting to the Samajwadi Party chief terming as unfair the death penalty prescribed by law in rape cases.

• After shocker on rape, Mulayam Singh's half-hearted explanation

  Uttar Pradesh politician Mulayam Singh Yadav, who has sparked outrage after saying "boys are boys, they make mistakes," while questioning the death sentence to three multiple rapists, today said he believes in toughest punishment for rapists.

• SHOCKING! Women having sex should be hanged, says Abu Azmi

  In a bizarre and grotesque statement, the state Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Abu Azmi said women who were raped should also be punished.

• Rape is not a 'mistake': Delhi braveheart's parents deplore Mulayam's shocker

  The parents of the young student who died after being gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi in December, 2012, have condemned Uttar Pradesh politician Mulayam Singh Yadav's comment that three rape convicts sentenced to death in Mumbai "made a mistake" and did not deserve to be hanged.

• Mulayam's shocker on rape: 'they are boys, they make mistakes'

  "They are boys, they make mistakes" - Uttar Pradesh politician Mulayam Singh Yadav's view that three men convicted of gang-raping two women in Mumbai were 'poor fellows' who did not deserve the death sentence, has sparked anger.

• Mulayam's shocker on rape: Boys make mistakes, why hang them?

  Uttar Pradesh politician Mulayam Singh Yadav has sparked outrage with his comments questioning the death sentence handed out to three men who were convicted of two gang-rapes in Mumbai last week. "Should rape cases be punished with hanging? They are boys, they make mistakes," he said today while campaigning for the national election.