Rapist MLA should be hanged: Banda girl
Banda: Released from prison after a little over a month, the minor backward community girl allegedly raped by a BSP MLA and later framed in a fake theft case today said she wanted her tormentor to be
'Gulabi Gang' says fight not yet over
Lucknow: Taking up the cudgels for the minor dalit girl, allegedly raped by a BSP MLA, a group of pink-sari clad women who have been holding demonstrations under the banner of 'Gulabi Gang' to highli
MLA issuing threats to whistleblower: Congress
Lucknow, Jan. 16: Accusing arrested BSP MLA Purushottam Naresh Dwiwedi and his supporters of issuing threats to the Congress legislator, who blew the lid off Banda rape case, the party today demanded
BSP MLA threatens revenge on Opposition parties
Rape accused BSP MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi has threatened to take revenge from Opposition parties for implicating him in a "false case." "Un partiyon se badla liya jayega jinhone hame iss case mein phansaya hai" (Revenge will be taken with the parties, which have got me framed in the fake case), the BSP MLA told reporters before entering the Banda district jail last night.
Two aides of BSP MLA accused in rape case, arrested
Lucknow: BSP MLA Purushottam Naresh Dwiwedi, who is accused of raping a minor Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district, is absconding while two of his aides have been arrested in connection with
WCD panel seeks CBI probe into Banda rape case
New Delhi: A committee constituted by the Women and Child Development Ministry today sought a CBI probe into the Banda rape case allegedly involving an Uttar Pradesh MLA.
After receiving the report
seven hanged in Iran
Tehran: Iran hanged on Wednesday seven men convicted of drug trafficking and another found guilty of raping a teenage girl, the state news agency IRNA reported.
The convicted rapist was hanged in Teh
China sees 'first male-rape case'
Beijing: A man has been jailed for one year in what state media said on Wednesday was believed to be China's first prosecution of a male rape, in a country where homosexuality is still a sensitive sub
No clues in Delhi girl's ghastly murder
New Delhi: There has been no breakthrough in the murder of a 17-year-old girl who was found killed in Delhi on the New Year's day, police said on Monday.
"The investigation is going on," a police off
Ex Israel prez facing jail for rape
Tel Aviv: Israeli former president Moshe Katsav faces at least eight years in prison after he was convicted on Thursday of two counts of rape for assaulting a former employee, a Tel Aviv court said.