Rape Victim Dies

A fast track court hearing the December 16 gang-rape case on Friday asked the counsel for the accused not to "harass" the victim's male friend who is deposing as a prosecution witness. "You can't harass the witness like this," Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna said when advocate V K Anand, appearing for accused Mukesh, vehemently objected to the witness looking at the Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan, during his cross-examination. During the hearing, the witness, however, failed ...

A witness in the December 16 gang-rape case complained to a fast track court in New Delhi that he felt harassed by the questioning of the counsel for the accused. "I am being harassed," the witness, who works for a private company engaged to patrol the National Highway 8 connecting Delhi and Gurgaon and provide help to accident victims, said. The witness, who had made the call to the police control room, was unhappy with the way advocate V K Anand, appearing for accused Mukesh, was questioning ...

New Delhi: With the trial in the Delhi gang-rape case "almost 90 percent complete", the Court verdict is expected to come by the end of May, Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. In a TV interview, Neeraj Kumar said,"The trial of December 16 (2012) ...

One of the accused in the December 16 gang rape case was on Thursday not brought before the fast track court due to ill-health following which the proceedings could not take place. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna was informed that accused Pawan Gupta could not be brought to the court as he has been referred to state-run DDU hospital after which the matter was adjourned for Friday. Sub-inspector Pratibha Sharma, who had done the initial probe in the case, and CFSL official P K Gautam, ...

New Delhi: The shameful incident of gang-rape of an American tourist in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro has brought back the bitter memories of December 16 brutal gang-rape of 23-year-old in Delhi. An American woman was gang-raped and beaten aboard a public ...