The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed a section of the media, especially news channels, for revealing the identity of the Rewari gang-rape victim and asked how such disclosures could be stopped. “Where is the anonymity of victim?” a bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta asked as[Read More…]
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Media houses to pay Rs 10 lakh each for identifying rape victim
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed 12 media organisations to pay Rs 10 lakh each as compensation for disclosing the identity of an eight-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district. Advocates representing the media houses told a bench of Acting Chief Justice[Read More…]
Rape victim should not boarded auto-rickshaw sitting three men already: Kirron Kher
Chandigarh’s BJP MP Kirron Kher has stirred a controversy by giving unsolicited advice to a young woman who was gang-raped earlier this month by an auto-rickshaw driver and his two accomplices. Kher said on Wednesday that the victim should have been more cautious and not boarded the auto-rickshaw in which[Read More…]
DNA of 10-yr-old rape victim’s newborn ‘doesn’t match’ with accused
In a shocking revelation, the DNA sample of the newborn of the 10-year-old Chandigarh rape victim does not match with that of the rape accused, the victim’s uncle, suggests forensic report. This shock came after the report was submitted to the Punjab and Haryana Court. The new development compelled the[Read More…]