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  Swati Maliwal addresses India TV's 'She' Conclave, calls for stricter punishment for rapists

  India | March 20, 2025 18:50 IST

  India TV's 'She' Conclave: Swati Maliwal, known for her advocacy on women’s safety, shared insights from her experiences and emphasised the need for stronger policies to protect and uplift women across the country.

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  Convicted habitual rapists in Pakistan could be chemically castrated under new law

  World | December 15, 2020 20:58 IST

  Convicted habitual rapists in Pakistan could be chemically castrated after President Arif Alvi on Tuesday approved a new anti-rape ordinance. 

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  After MP, Rajasthan, Haryana, now Uttarakhand to bring in law for death penalty to rapists of minor girls

  India | July 13, 2018 9:41 IST

  The legislation will be introduced in the next session of the state Assembly, said Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.

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  Rapists burden on earth, don’t deserve to live, says MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan

  India | June 29, 2018 15:51 IST

  The Madhya Pradesh Assembly had unanimously passed a Bill last year awarding death penalty to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 and below.

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  Process underway to ensure death penalty for child rape under POCSO Act, Centre tells SC

  India | April 21, 2018 6:28 IST

  The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that the process to amend the penal law to introduce death penalty to those convicted of sexually abusing children up to 12 years of age has been initiated.

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  Culprits should be hanged to death in public, says Bhopal gang-rape victim

  India | November 05, 2017 19:46 IST

  A young woman -- gang raped by four persons in Bhopal -- on Sunday demanded that the culprits should be hanged in public for their crime and flayed the police for its "unhelpful" attitude in the whole affair.

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  Got rapists tortured, made them scream for their lives as CM: Uma Bharti

  Politics | February 10, 2017 14:18 IST

  Uma Bharti on Tuesday said that she had got rapists tortured during her reign as the CM of Madhya Pradesh in front of the survivors and made them watch so they could have some closure.

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  No parole for rapists in Maharashtra after Pallavi Purkayastha’s killer jumps parole

  India | August 31, 2016 14:44 IST

  On the back foot after the convict in the murder and rape of Pallavi Purkayasta jumped parole, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided against its grant to rapists and murderers among other convicts.

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  UP: In 98 per cent cases, rapists are known to victims

  India | August 31, 2016 8:54 IST

  The latest government statistics have made a lamentable revelation about rapes in India, and particularly Uttar Pradesh.

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  12 Pak rapists, a minor victim and the ugly truth of UK's Asian gangs

  World | February 13, 2016 20:55 IST

  New Delhi: In a shocking incident, 12 men of Pakistani origin have been held guilty of the rape and abuse of a 13-year-old minor girl in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. The crime was not one-off

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  Rapists a menace to the civilized society, says Delhi High Court

  India | February 13, 2015 18:35 IST

  New Delhi: Terming rapists a "menace to the civilized society" and calling for them to "mercilessly and inexorably punished" in the severest terms, the Delhi High Court has refused to lessen the punishment of the

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  Indian diaspora seeks strong steps against rapists

  India | January 07, 2014 19:11 IST

  New Delhi: The Indian diaspora was shaken by the brutal gangrape of a young woman on Dec 16, 2012, and upset over the continuing rapes taking place in the national capital and elsewhere but made

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  Karna police asked to book rapists under Goondas Act

  India | January 16, 2013 17:31 IST

  Bangalore, Jan 16: Karnataka Government is contemplating amending laws to ensure that rapists do not get bail and police have been directed to book them under Goondas Act and take steps to prevent atrocities, including

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  Asaram Bapu says, Delhi gangrape victim should have pleaded for mercy from rapists

  India | January 07, 2013 16:49 IST

  New Delhi, Jan 7:Spiritual leader Asaram Bapu was Monday reported as saying that the Delhi gang-rape victim should have called her culprits brothers and recited the Saraswati mantra, provoking both the ruling Congress and the

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  Data base of rape convicts to soon be posted online

  India | December 28, 2012 9:26 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 28:  The government said Thursday it was planning to compile a data base of all rape convicts across the country and post their photographs, names and addresses on a website.Minister of State

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  Rapists should be stoned to death: Azam Khan

  Politics | December 27, 2012 10:01 IST

  Mainpuri, Dec 26: Prominent Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan has demanded that rapists should be "stoned" to death in public as per Islamic law, saying capital punishment is much less for such a heinous

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  Lalu Yadav favours death sentence for rapists

  Politics | December 24, 2012 17:12 IST

  Patna, Dec 24: Joining the growing clamour to award death penalty to perpetrators of rape, RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav today said his party would advocate for capital punishment for rapists in the Delhi gang

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  Rapists should be rendered impotent, says NCW chief

  India | December 20, 2012 16:23 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 20: Demanding enactment of stringent laws to deter people from committing crimes like rape, the National Commission for Women (NCW) today favoured capital punishment for perpetrators and even suggested that they should

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  Rapists deserve death sentence: Salman

  Bollywood | December 18, 2012 21:27 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 18: Condemning the gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in the capital, Bollywood star Salman Khan Tuesday said rapists should be hanged."In my view, there should be a death sentence for all

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  Dhaula Kuan Rapists Sent To Tihar Till Monday

  India | December 03, 2010 17:06 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 3: A Delhi court today sent two persons, accused of raping a 30-year-old call centre employee last week after abducting her from Dhaula Kuan area, to Tihar Jail till Monday under judicial