Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora was hearing a plea by one of the four death row convicts in the case, Mukesh Kumar Singh, seek...

This comes after states made little progress in setting up these centres, which was to be done following a Supreme Court ruling that mandat...

As per the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau in India, 32,559 cases of rape were registered in 2017, the court noted. To c...

"Hundred per cent we will implement," Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa told reporters at Hubballi in north Karnataka in response to...

An analysis clearly established that rape reporting between 2013 and 2016 shows an increase of 1.4 rapes reported per 100,000 women.

The apex court was told that in today's world, parallel media trials were going on even when proceedings of cases were pending before the c...

A bench comprising Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, while asking all the states and UTs to file their responses within four weeks on re...

While Shaan-e-Punjab Express is fully covered with the system, some ladies compartments of Mumbai suburban service are being covered under ...

The SC today asked the Centre to formulate a national policy for providing adequate reliefs to rape survivors.

About 40 per cent of women surveyed in Delhi said they have been sexually harassed in a public place such as a bus or park in the past year...

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 384 cases of crime against women tourists from overseas were registered in 2014.

The Union home ministry has approved the setting up of dedicated investigative units on crimes against women (IUCAW) in 564 districts acros...

N Chandrababu Naidu has asked the District Collectors to "invoke" the stringent 'Nirbhaya Act' against the anti-social elements.

ASI sources said there was a drop is in both Indian and foreign visitors in Delhi in 2013-14, although the fall in the number of foreign vi...

Stressing the need to empower women, he said participation of women in public life and the administration should increase much more.

Rapists should not be hanged. Not on the grounds that 'Boys are boys – they make mistakes' but because the certainty of Capital Punishment ...

Cases including the Nirbhaya gang-rape, Mumbai’s Shakti Mills case and even the Guwahati rape case stood out for involvement of minors in t...