The four-year-old was who was raped in Madhya Pradesh died at around 7.45 PM last night after she suffered a cardiac arrest. She was in the hospital for the past 13 days undergoing treatment. The doctors said that just before the cardiac arrest the girl's bloo...
Six days after the rape of the five-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh, the child still continues to battle for her life. The doctors have said that the little girl is still in coma and her blood pressure and pulse rates continue to drop. The doctors will conduct...
The condition of the five-year-old rape victim in Shivani, Madhya Pradesh, worsens as her pulse rate and blood pressure drops. The doctors have kept her on ventilator and strong life support drugs. The doctors have also said that the child is not responding to...
A 15-year-old girl was raped by a minor boy from her village in Madhya Pradesh. The victim's brother who saw the incident, went to call his parents. By the time he returned with help, his sister had set herself on fire. A case has been registered agianst the a...
Even as the chorus for his ouster grows louder, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has been a picture of defiance, ruling out his resignation and lauding his force.
The five-year-old girl who was raped in Shivani, Madhya Pradesh, continues to battle for her life. The doctors have said that there is no improvement in the child's condition. According to the doctors, the oxygen supply was cut off to the brain, when the accu...
Protests resumed outside the Delhi police headquarters over the horrific rape of a five-year-old child. The protesters demanded immediate resignation of the Commissioner, Neeraj Kumar.
The four-year-old who was raped and brutalised in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh is showing no improvement and remains critical. The girl had suffered brain. She was allegedly raped by 35-year-old Firoz Khan.
Protesters gathered outside AIIMS -- where the five-year-old girl, who raped and brutalised, is being treated -- are demanding death penalty for rapists.
A doctor from AIIMS hospital in Delhi in his address to the media said that the five-year-old girl who was raped is showing signs of recovery. He also said that the girl has been started on a liquid and semi solid diet. He also said that the girl's wounds are ...
While the five-year-old Delhi rape victim is out of danger and stable, another five-year-old in Madhya Pradesh continues to battle for her life. The police are still searching for the accused Feroz. The doctors have said that the girl's situation continues to ...
The ordeal of the five-year-old Delhi rape victim isn't her's alone. It is the story of many hapless girls who are subjected to sexual brutality from various parts of the nation. Has anything changed despite the raging protests and the new anti-rape law which ...
Despite the raging protests against crimes against women and the strong laws passed in the Parliament to deter the crimes, there seems to be no end to the atrocities committed against women and children. The plight of the five-year-old Delhi girl is merely tip...
Doctors have revealed that the five-year-old rape victim is out of danger and is fast recovering. Meanwhile, the demand for the resignation of Delhi police Commissioner is growing as fresh allegations of police inaction in the case have emerged although the po...
In a shocking incident that reveals the insensitivity of Uttar Pradesh police officials, Bulandshahr ADG reveals the identity of the minor rape victim in a press conference in contravention of the law that guarantees utmost privacy to the victims of sexual abu...
The Supreme Court takes suo motu cognisance of the incident of a ten-year-old rape victim being locked up in a jail in Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh. The UP government is yet to take action against the station house officer and the other officials involved.
No action has been initiated against the cops who illegally detained a minor rape victim in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh. The child has now claimed that she was tortured in custody. The man who allegedly raped the child has been arrested. Here is the ...
A 19-year-old rape victim, whose mother was killed by the same people who molested her, fights for justice in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. The mother was pushed under a speeding truck by the molesters. Although the victim has filed a complaint, the p...
Congress has hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government for the police inaction in Bulandshahr minor rape case. The 10-year-old rape victim was detained by the cops when she and her mother went to register a complaint. Congress says that the government has been u...
A 10-year-old rape victim has allegedly been locked up in the police station for demanding justice. The station in-charge claims she has no clue about why the child is being detained. Is the victim locked up by the police in order to protect the accused?
Father of Kiliroor sex scandal victim has come out claiming that the silence of Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan over the scandal is dubious. Further on, he has claimed that VS, who appears to be vehemently demanding justice for the Suryanelli rape victim, s...
President Pranab Mukherjee rejects the mercy plea of Dharampal, who was found guilty of raping a girl in Sonipat, Haryana, in 1991. Dharampal was sentenced to 10 years in jail. When he was released on parole he murdered five members of the victim's family. Dha...
A 16-year-old girl from Meghalaya, who was brutally gangraped by 17 men, and her family face harassment, apathy and alienation from the society. The child protection centre, that took in the victim after the schools denied her education, refuses to allow her f...
Suryanelli rape case | More trouble for Rajya Sabha deputy chairman PJ Kurien as an Idukki court accepts a petition by the gangrape victim, seeking that Kurien be named an accused in the case. The court has sent a notice against Kurien and five others in this ...
An Uttar Pradesh cop is caught on camera humiliating a woman who wanted to register a rape case. He makes a sexist remark against the woman, a mother of four, saying who would want to rape an old woman.
The exact cause of death of the main accused in the Delhi gangrape case, inside Tihar jail in Delhi, could be revealed today after doctors take up the post-mortem. Ram Singh was found hanging yesterday morning in his cell in the high-security prison.
The main accused in the horrific gangrape on December 16 last year hanged himself inside the cell in Tihar jail. His family says Ram Singh was murdered.
Ram Singh, the driver of the bus in which Nirbhaya was gangraped on December 16 last year, hanged himself from railings of his cell in Delhi's Tihar jail. Ram Singh was under depression, and stood to be hanged if the charges against him could be proved in the ...
Ram Singh, the main accused in the horrific Delhi gangrape case on December 16, commits suicide by hanging himself inside Tihar jail. He had 13 cases against him. He was the driver of the bus in which Nirbhaya was raped while five of his henchmen held her frie...
A 13-year-old rape victim was subjected to torture at a court-appointed shelter home in West Bengal. This tale of barbarity reveals how this girl was raped, not once but twice by the same accused who was let out on bail after the first incident. According to l...
Days after Deputy Superintendent of Police, Zia-ul-Haq, was shot dead in broad daylight, DYSP of Gorakhpur was attacked by lawyers inside a court campus. Lawyers claim that DYSP Vijay Shankar Mishra was attacked after he refused to file an FIR when a dalit rap...
Doctors confirm that the three-year-old girl, who was brutally raped in Malappuram, is out of danger. The rape victim, who underwent a surgery, is still in the ICU as the doctors want to prevent any sort of infection.
On International Woman's Day, which is celebrated on March 8, the United States has decided to bestow upon the 23-year-old Delhi gangrape victim the International Woman of Courage Award. This award will be presented posthumously by First Lady Michelle Obama. I...
A 12-year-old tribal girl, who was kidnapped and raped for three days, is victimised all over again. Instead of supporting her, she is ostracised, as school administration bars her from attending school, saying she will vitiate the atmosphere.
On Friday, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde broke the law and read out the names of the three girls who were raped and murdered in Bhandara. But the criminal error did not end there. Even after the names of the girls were expunged from the Rajya Sabha records...
After Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde made a monumental gaffe in Parliament by naming the three rape victims of Bhandara, he withdraws his statement and his remarks were expunged from Parliament records. Outside the House, when cornered by the media, Shinde ...
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde courts yet another controversy after naming the three minor victims of rape in Rajya Sabha. However, explaining to the media he says that he has withdrawn his statement as well as ordered the Home Secretary to inquire into thi...
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley points out that Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde names the three underaged victims of rape in the document presented on the Floor of the House and asks him to correct the statement.
Arun Jaitley, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, points Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's mistake by identifying the three minor victims of rape. Shinde, in his statement presented in the Parliament about the Bhandara rape and murder case, names the three ...
Congress MP K Sudhakaran comes out with a highly irresponsible statement in the Suryanelli rape case. At a public gathering, Sudhakaran called the victim a prostitute. He said that if she was really innocent then she would have escaped when she had the opportu...
Key convict in the Suryanelli rape case, SS Dharmarajan, who was arrested from Karnataka yesterday, will be presented at a Kottayam court today. The police team, which nabbed Dharmarajan, is still en route to Kottayam with him and hopes to reach Kottayam in ti...
In another case of violence against women, reports of six-year-old girl being raped has come in. The girl was raped and then thrown at the Delhi border. She was brought into Safdurjung Hospital in a critical condition and had to undergo numerous surgeries. The...
Achil Vandhavai | The Rs 3,700 crore VVIP helicopter deal; acid attack victim Vinodhini's death; water-can purification fraud in Tamil Nadu; PJ Kurien writes a letter to Sonia Gandhi; Suryanelli rape case rages on; and the Cauvery water release by Karnataka.
She has waited 17 years for justice, and it has still eluded her. The Suryanelli rape case victim now has shot off a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, asking her to remove PJ Kurien from the post of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman. According to the victim...
Giving strength to the collective cry for his resignation, the sole convict in the Suryanelli gangrape case has named Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien as one of the assaulters of the victim. According to the victim, too, Kurien was one of the men who sexu...
Devastated by the empty assurances by the authorities, parents of a seven-year-old rape victim have decided to fight against the system that is turning a blind eye to their plight. The father of the victim has threatened to go on a hunger strike until justice ...
It is the law that allows minors to get away after committing heinous crimes, says Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir. His comments were in reference to the minor accused in the Delhi gangrape case, who would most likely get away despite being the most bruta...
As the Left-led Opposition in Kerala steps up its attack on Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson PJ Kurien, there is more trouble for the beleagured politician. A BJP MLA, and a key witness in the Suryanelli rape case, KS Rajan has retracted his statement that had b...
The 11-year-old Sikar gangrape victim has been shifted to Delhi's AIIMS for further treatment. The government feels that the victim needs more advanced treatment. In the past five months she has undergone 14 operations, but her condition is yet to improve. Ano...
The Bharatpur rape victim, who was forced to go into hiding, has now come out, alleging that the Congress MLA of Bharatpur, Zahida Khan, has offered Rs. 1 crore to silence her. The MLA has offered the money in a bid to save her husband, who is accused of sexua...
In another case of brutal rape of a minor, a seventh standard student Malini is raped by a daily wage worker in Nagapattinam. Soundararajan, a 30-year-old married man, who also has two children of his own, saw Malini playing near his backyard. Taking advantage...
The father of the Delhi gangrape victim, who died after being gang-raped on a bus, has called for changes in the law to allow a teenage suspect to be tried as an adult. The father of the 23-year-old victim said he was shocked that a court ruled that the sixth ...
The juvenile in the Delhi gangrape case will soon be let out free as he will not be tried along with the other accused. This has angered the victim's family and they have vowed to fight for her justice.
NRIs in Singapore demand justice for the 23-year-old paramedical student who was brutally gangraped in Delhi in December 2012, seeking tougher laws for crimes against women. They paid tribute to the nation's braveheart with a candlelight vigil, calling for cha...
On the occasion of Republic Day, the President Pranab Mukherjee addresses the nation & warns neighbour Pakistan not to take India's friendliness for granted and as a sign of weakness. He also condemned the rape of a girl in Delhi which brought the whole nation...
The fast-track Court in Yamunanagar has set a record of sorts. It has passed a judgement in a rape case in just nine days. A man was accused of raping a five-year-old girl and then threatening her to keep quiet. The Court has sentenced him to 10 years in jail....
A gangrape victim attempted suicide in the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Court by consuming poison. The reason behind the victim taking the extreme step was delayed justice. She was allegedly gangraped by colleagues on April 6, 2007 and since then she has been fighti...
In a shocking incident, a woman who got down from a Delhi-bound train in Bhagalpur district, was gangraped, killed and her semi-naked body hung from a tree in a mango orchard in Kahalgaon. The woman was travelling along with her son by the Brahmaputra Mail to ...
After sparking a massive controversy with his comments, self-proclaimed godman Asaram evades the cameras and refuses to answer any questions on the issue. Followers of the spiritual guru have also defended his remarks on the recent Delhi gang-rape. The 'Bapu' ...
In yet another embarrassing instance of crime against women, a women who was gangraped twenty years ago in Rajasthan continues to be ostracized by the upper class society while the perpetrators of this heinous crime enjoy total social respect. The victim suffe...
Five men who raped a 23-year-old medical student in New Delhi and threw her off a moving bus in an attempt to kill her, have been brought before a court. The judge was forced to drag the media out of the court room after shouting and angry scenes delayed the p...
Taking on RSS chief Mohan Bhagat for his insensitive comments on rape victims and increasing crimes against women in India, JDU leader Shivanand Tiwari says that Bhagat's comments show his regressive mindset and attitudes. He has also compared Bhagat with MIM ...
In two separate incidents, in Uttar Pradesh, violence against women were reported. The first shocking story was from Allahbad where after a failed attempt of rape, the accused set the victim on fire as they were scared that they would be identified. The victim...
Damini's friend and the eyewitness to the horrific Delhi gangrape case in his interview told Aaj Tak said that he would do everything on his part so that his friend would get justice. He also said that the 17-year-old boy should receive the same punishment as ...
The gangrape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on December 16, 2012, jolted the entire nation. What could have become another statistics became the symbol of a mass movement across the country. But while it took violent and protesting citizens to shake th...
Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj has lashed out at the Delhi Police for filing an FIR against Zee News for airing the interview of the braveheart's friend. The senior BJP leader has tweeted saying that the Delhi Police cannot muzzle the voice of the citizens by...
The Delhi gangrape case will be heard in a fast-track court today. Yogesh Khanna, who is an additional sessions court judge, will be presiding over the rape case. The Delhi Police had earlier filed a 1000-page chargesheet in a Metropolitan Magistrate's Court i...
Congress MP Krishna Tirath responds to the Delhi gangrape incident and the call from different netas for women to dress more decently. Krishna Tirath believes that women have a right to wear whatever they choose to with discretion and categorically states that...
A woman who spoke out against the exploitation of children in the name of tradition was gangraped and given death threats. Despite the torture, braveheart Bhanwari Devi is alive, although bitter because she is now losing hope of justice against those who assau...
CPI(M) polit buro member Brinda Karat says that the RSS chief doesn't known Bharat nor India, reacting to Mohan Bhagwat's comments that sexual crimes such as rape only occur in India and not Bharat. She says that statistics disprove his claim, as most number o...
While RSS defends its chief Mohan Bhagwat's comment discriminating 'Bharat' from 'India', saying sexual crimes only occur in urban areas and not in the rural India, women leaders have criticised vehemently against his views. While National Commission for Women...
Inaction on the government's part has pushed agitated protesters over the edge. Displaying anger at its best, the people of Assam lashed out at a former MP who was accused of trying to rape a woman in Chirang. Meanwhile, two men who raped a class XII student i...
Inaction on the government's part has pushed agitated protesters over the edge. With the law dragging its feet and the cops making empty promises, the people's anger has reached a boiling point. The people of Assam lashed out at a former MP who was accused of ...
The most brutal attacker who raped and attempted to murder a young 23-year-old medical student in New Delhi may get away with the crime and could soon be back on the streets with not even a jail term. Protesters are now thronging the Saket court in New Delhi d...
There is no closure in the case of the 23-year-old girl who died days after being gangraped in New Delhi. The minor who raped the girl is scheduled to be brought before the juvenile justice court shortly, and surprisingly, could walk free with just a minor rap...
The wheels of justice are finally in motion and the Delhi Police have made their stand clear that they will not settle for anything less than death penalty for the rapists involved in the gangrape of the 23-year-old medical student, who succumbed to her injuri...
While an entire nation protests the increasing number of rapes in the country, the plight of a 17-year-old girl have now mobilised the citizens of Puducherry in Tamil Nadu to agitate on her behalf. The girl was raped and dumped at a bus stand and the family is...
An 11-year-old girl has had to undergo 12 surgeries in the past four months, after she was raped and left to die. Her parents, today, live in fear as those who violated her continue to threaten her. Now, citizens of Rajasthan are up in arms against the state g...
Uttar Pradesh police is not yet awake to the widespread protests for better security for women. A rape victim in UP is running from pillar to post to get her case registered. The victim has finally threatened the police with self immolation which put the UP po...
Hundreds of women protesters have taken out a silent protest in New Delhi to mourn the death of the medical student who was raped by four men in a moving bus. The 23-year-old rape victim, who was fighting for her life, died last week, igniting a fierce respons...
The Delhi Police have filed the chargesheet against the accused in the gang-rape of the 23-year old on a moving bus in Delhi on December 16. Cases under a total of nine charges have been slapped against the accused. One of the charges to is under Section 302, ...
Singer Shubha Mudgal pays tribute to the 23-year-old victim of gangrape in Delhi by singing a song for her. The lyrics for this song was penned by Alok Srivastava.
She was gangraped on December 16. After 13 days in hospital and with her health condition wavering between critical to dangerous, the 23-year-old victim of gangrape succumbed on December 29 at the hospital in Singapore. This is a fictional account of her grie...
Students decided to stay away from boisterous celebrations to mark the new year and instead took time out for performances and marches across Delhi. Students of Delhi's JNU decided to stay awake well beyond 12 midnight and walked with candles in hand to the Mu...
A Mumbai journalist has written a poem that is a tribute to the 23-year-old victim of gangrape in Delhi. Omprakash Tiwari, bureau chief of Dianik Jagran has written a poem that has been set music by Kiran Phalke, the grandson of Dadaseheb Phalke.
Across Delhi, students and commoners decide not to celebrate the new year and instead joined in protest and candle light marches across the city. The voices of anguish at the fate of the 23-year-old victim of gang-rape were heard loud and clear at these marche...
In the aftermath of the death of the 23-year-old gangrape victim, the entire nation was plunged into sadness and anguish. This story looks with hope that in the new year this anguish will bring in more positive tidings.
Many felt anguished and pained by the death of the 23-year old victim of gang-rape in Delhi. So they decided not to celebrate the new year, and instead like these group of people in Delhi, took out a candle light march as mark of their anguish and concern over...
With the New Year dawns new hope as the citizens of the country refuse to let Nirbhaya's fight go in vain. They continue to hold candlelight vigils and peaceful protest marches in an attempt to wake the government from its slumber. The protesters hope that the...
Even as the nation continues to demand justice, India's bravehearts and protesters vow not to rest until the demand for greater safety and security for women is met with concrete action. There is no respite for crimes against women in the national capital. Thi...
A cross-section of students and youth sit in protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi during the last day of the year to protest against the gang-rape in Delhi and protest against rape in general. voices against gang-rape at NY protest
BJP leaders gathered at the Head Quarters in Delhi to pay tribute to Damini. Sushma Swaraj addressed the gathering. She says that she is completely shocked and disgusted at the events of the fateful night of 16th December. She said that according to the doctor...
Condoling the death of Delhi gangrape victim, BJP's leader in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley says that elected representatives of society should be given an opportunity to change the existing rape laws. Jaitley says apart from that the mindset biased against wo...
BJP leader Arun Jaitley addressed the memorial meet, held for Damini, at the Delhi headquarters. He said that it was time that the country awakens and comes together to address the problem. He said that India must make use of this situation to bring about the ...
The 23-year-old gangrape victim was cremated in Delhi on Sunday while the rest of the nation continue to come out in large numbers to mourn her death and demand a change in the existing laws. The public is demanding better protection for women and strictest pu...
The anger among the citizens continues to grow. 10 metro stations were shut down on Saturday. Today 5 stations, Pragati Maidan, Mandi House, Barakhamba, Rajiv Chowk and Patel Chowk were reopened. The areas surrounding the India Gate continue to remain out of b...
The death of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student in a Singapore hospital has traumatised the entire country. Words fail to describe the indignation every Indian feels. Here is a poetic and moving tribute penned by an Aaj Tak reporter on her death and express...
A moving tribute in free verse that recounts the saga of the unnamed girl who became a cause for a mass movement. This video from Aaj Tak puts together the chronology of events that started after news of the Delhi gangrape victim's stuggle to stay alive became...
The Delhi gangrape victim was cremated early this morning at Dwarka after her mortal remains were brought in by a special Air India flight from Singapore. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi were at the airport to receive her body...