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RNA Research & Archives Abu Asim Azmi created ruckus with his comments on the amended anti-rape law by stating that women should be awarded death penalty for consensual sex. This comment came closely on the heels of Samajwadi leader Mulayam ...

New Delhi: When the Samajwadi Party released its manifesto for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election on 2 April, what caught everyone's attention was a paragraph saying the party will tone down the newly formulated anti-rape law to check its large ...

Samajwadi Party today said if voted to power at Centre it will check "large scale misuse" of newly formulated legislations including the anti-rape law that came into existence after December 16, 2012 gang-rape case. "There is a large scale misuse of laws ...

Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal was charged yesterday under the stringent post-Nirbhaya anti-rape law for allegedly sexually assaulting a journalist working for his magazine.

Retired judge of Madhya Pradesh high court and former chairman of state human rights commission, RD Shukla, demanded review of the new anti-rape law, introduced for strict penalty for crime against women.

Family of late Justice J S Verma has refused to accept the Padma Bhushan award conferred on him by the government posthumously, saying accepting it would be against his principles as he never "hankered" for any such honour. In a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee, Verma's wife Pushpa said, "The greatest honour to him remains how he is held in the hearts and minds of his fellow countrymen: as a true friend not just to women or the youth, but to those most in need of one..." "He never hankered ...

Texas governor Rick Perry has decided to take another stand against the federal government. This time, his target is an anti-prison rape law. I will not sign your form and I will encourage my fellow governors to follow suit, Perry wrote in a ...

A day ahead of the sentencing in the Mumbai Shakti Mills compound gang rape case, legal experts and activists expressed a fear that adding the new charge under Section 376 (E) of the Indian Penal Code under the amended anti-rape law could offer no ...

World Bulletin / News Desk A human rights group has documented more than 270 cases of torture and three rape cases against detained anti-cpup activistsin March. "More than 270 cases of torture have been registered in March," the Egyptian ...