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…
NEW DELHI: In a sharp response to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee‘s second letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union minister of women and child development, Annapurna Devi, outlined the Centre’s stance on the handling of heinous crimes like rape and murder. In her letter, she said that stringent laws already exist under the…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu for the first time has publicly spoken about her views on the Kolkata incident through an article titled “Women’s Safety: Enough is Enough.”Declaring that “enough is enough,” Murmu stressed upon the urgency of addressing the harmful mindset that views women as “less powerful, less capable, less intelligent,” because of which…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused the BJP of conspiring to obstruct the ongoing investigation into the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.During her address at the TMCP foundation day, Mamata expressed her opposition to BJP’s 12-hour shutdown call in Bengal,…
NEW DELHI: A city court on Friday granted permission to the CBI to conduct polygraph tests on seven individuals, including prime suspect Sanjay Roy, in connection with the RG Kar rape and murder case.Why did Sanjay Roy agree to the polygraph test?Sanjay Roy reportedly became emotional when the magistrate asked him why he was consenting…
NEW DELHI: A special court in Kolkata on Friday allowed a polygraph test to be conducted on Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said.The court has already given its nod to conduct the lie-detection test on Sandip…
NEW DELHI: A special court in Kolkata on Friday allowed a polygraph test to be conducted on Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said.The court has already given its nod to conduct the lie-detection test on Sandip…
BENGALURU: A 21-year-old college student was allegedly sexually assaulted by a biker whom she had hitched a ride with for a drop home past Saturday midnight.The alleged incident took place at an isolated spot in Rajeev Gandhi Nagar, HSR Layout, in southeast Bengaluru’s Sector-7. The woman was returning to her accommodation in Chandapura area, off…
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: Thousands of women have come on the streets of West Bengal as part of “Reclaim the night” midnight protest in response to the brutal rape and murder of an on-duty doctor inside a Kolkata hospital last week.The “Women, Reclaim the Night” call, initiated on social media by ordinary citizens, students, homemakers, and office…
