NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday praised a POCSO court in Baruipur for awarding the death penalty to Mostakin Sardar, convicted of the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Joynagar, South 24 Parganas. The verdict came just 62 days after the crime, a pace Banerjee described as “unprecedented” in…
KOLKATA: MLAs on Monday got a draft copy of the Aparajita Bill, which seeks to punish all incidents of rape – including cases where the woman survives – with death or life in prison. State law minister Moloy Ghatak is likely to table the Aparajita Women, Child (West Bengal Criminal Law Amendment) Bill 2024 in…
KOLKATA: The stringent anti-rape bill to be tabled by West Bengal’s govt in the assembly on Monday proposes to treat all rape crimes – even if the victim survives – as a murder to be punished with life imprisonment or death, irrespective of the victim’s age. It will also call for a time-bound trial and…
RUDRAPUR: Amid the nationwide anger on the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata, the brutal rape and murder of a 33-year-old nurse has ignited widespread outrage in Uttarakhand‘s Udham Singh Nagar. The victim was a single mother and worked at a private hospital in Rudrapur. On Friday, members of Women’s Congress staged a…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday took out a protest march demanding death penalty for the accused of the Kolkata doctor rape and murder case Sanjay Ray. She further blamed the BJP, CPM and Congress for vandalising RG Kar College & Hospital during a midnight protest on Wednesday.Meanwhile, Kolkata CP Vineet…
KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Sunday that her government will seek the death penalty for those accused in the sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor, whose body was discovered at a government hospital in north Kolkata last Friday. The case will be pursued in a fast track…
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday nullified a plea agreement for the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, reinstating the death penalty option for him and two other defendants, as per Associated Press.“In light of the significance of the decision, I have determined that the authority to make a…
NEW DELHI: Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan on Thursday was sentenced to death in a multi-billion dollar fraud case.Truong My Lan, chair of major developer Van Thinh Phat, was accused of swindling the cash from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) over a decade.She and dozens of other co-accused faced verdicts in one of the country’s…
