Shakti Mills Rape

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

"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.

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.

The mother of the gang-rape survivor reveals how she lives in constant fear for the safety of her daughter, who is taunted by locals and kept at arm's length by relatives, ever since she was subjected to the crime.

From the day the survivor almost fainted in court till the sentencing on Friday, this trial has been unique.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

"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.

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.

The mother of the gang-rape survivor reveals how she lives in constant fear for the safety of her daughter, who is taunted by locals and kept at arm's length by relatives, ever since she was subjected to the crime.

From the day the survivor almost fainted in court till the sentencing on Friday, this trial has been unique.