Bilkis Bano was 21-years-old and five months pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the violence that broke out after the Godhra tr...

On August 15, all the 11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 case of Bilkis Bano's gang rape and murder of her seven family...

Manesh Gill, a doctor of Indian roots from the UK, was sentenced to four years for raping a woman he met on a dating app three years ago. G...

The amendment replaces the criminal law amendment ordinance promulgated on April 21 after the rape and murder of a minor girl in Kathua and...

Kiren Rijiju said the recent incidents of rape and gangrape of women under the age of 16 years and 12 years have shaken the conscience of t...

The bill stipulates stringent punishment for perpetrators of rape, particularly of girls below 12 years. Death sentence has been provided f...

The amendment bill, once approved by Parliament, will replace the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance promulgated on April 21.

The minimum punishment in case of rape of women has been increased from rigorous imprisonment of seven years to 10 years, extendable to lif...

Taking to Twitter, Malini called for a national movement against "animals who don't spare even babies" and said media should also support t...

The Union Cabinet will have a special meeting this evening to discuss the Justice Verma Committee report which has recommended a series of ...

Pm also thanked the Committee members for their "labour of love" in pursuing their job to recommend amendments to the law.

The Justice JS Verma committee has decided to meet top bureaucrats and eminent civil society members before finalising its report on a stro...

“States have said that the age to consider someone a juvenile should be reduced from 18 to 16 as it was earlier. We are looking into the de...

CPM has suggested enhancement of punishment in sexual offences and proposed life imprisonment and even death in rarest of rare cases.

Congress' draft proposal has suggested life imprisonment extending to the entire life of the rapist and setting up of dedicated fast-track ...

The protesters lit candles and shouted slogans like "We show solidarity with women in India" and "We will stand up for women everywhere".

Recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described the scams involving his government as "aberrations" - a deviation from the proper expecte...