The Nirbhaya case began on 16 December 2012 with the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a Delhi bus; she died on 29 December. Four adult convicts were sentenc…
A Rajya Sabha reply reported by ThePrint: Rs 7,990.85 crore allocated since 2013-14, Rs 1,287.83 crore unspent, and a record-low 2025-26 allocation of Rs 278 crore.
Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Kumar Singh and Pawan Gupta were hanged at Tihar Jail after late-night hearings in the High Court and Supreme Court.
Warrants for 22 Jan, 1 Feb and 3 Mar were stayed or deferred. Courts held that all four must be executed together, so each convict's remaining remedy reset the calendar.
Akshay Kumar Singh's review was dismissed on 18 December 2019. The other three reviews were dismissed on 9 July 2018.
The Supreme Court upheld all four death sentences, calling the case rarest of rare.
The sixth accused, a juvenile at the time, was released on 20 December 2015. On 22 December the Rajya Sabha passed a bill allowing 16 to 18-year-olds to be tried as adul…
A fast-track court convicted four men of 13 offences on 10 September 2013 and sentenced them to death on 13 September. The Delhi High Court confirmed on 13 March 2014.
The Act widened the definition of rape and added offences such as stalking, voyeurism and acid attack. It allows the death penalty in limited cases and did not adopt eve…
The three-member committee reported in 29 days. It advised against the death penalty for rape and proposed removing the marital-rape exception.
Protests spread across Delhi. The survivor was flown to Singapore on 27 December and died on 29 December. The Justice Verma Committee was constituted on 23 December.
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