The Uber cab driver accused of sexual assaulting a woman executive Tuesday told a Delhi court yesterday that he has not committed rape and he has been falsely implicated in the case. Claiming innocence in the case, Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav told Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja that it...

The woman who was allegedly raped in a Delhi Uber cab by its driver, has now sued the San Francisco tech company valued at $40bn for unspecified damages in a US federal court for having “had advanced knowledge of the unfitness of Yadav [the driver], and employed him with a conscious disregard of the...

The Supreme Court today put on hold, for three weeks, the trial of Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal for alleged sexual assault on his junior colleague in Goa during an event organised by the magazine. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu suspended Tejpal’s trial by three weeks after senior co...

The woman who was allegedly raped in Delhi by a driver contracted by US-based cab booking service Uber, has instructed one of New York’s top litigators Douglas Wigdor in a potential negligence action, reported The Guardian . Wigdor told The Guardian that had met “extensively” with the alleged victim...

A Delhi court today sent Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav accused of raping a 25-year-old woman 5 December to 14 days judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey sent Yadav to judicial custody until 24 December after police told court that he is not required for further custodial...

A Delhi sessions court ordered initiation of proceedings against a woman for filing a false rape case. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat in a recent order said there was no truth in the woman’s allegation of rape against her brother-in-law Rajeev Kumar. Even her testimony does not inspire any ...

Listen yaar, the Delhi high court said that women who’ve entered menopause can’t be raped, right?

The Delhi high court noted in its judgement acquitting an alleged rapist, that sexual intercourse between the accused and the victim, who was “beyond the age of menopause”, was “forceful [but] it was not forcible”. A bench comprising justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Mukta Gupta ruled that the absence ...

Pro bono legal assistance NGO iProbono won a Delhi high court appeal yesterday for a now six-year-old rape victim, with the high court slamming the magistrate and trial judge in her case for questioning her like an adult witness while recording her testimony.

A Delhi court Tuesday convicted five men for the abduction and gang rape of a call centre executive that took place in the Dhaula Kuan area in 2010. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat convicted Shamshad alias Khutkan, Usman alias Kale, Shahid alias Chhota Billi, Iqbal alias Bada Billi and Kamru...

The Supreme Court will Tuesday hear a plea alleging police inaction on a complaint by an advocate from Chhattisgarh, alleging gang rape by her husband’s family members and two others on 29 November 2013. When the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha was about to leave a c...

A woman judge in Aligarh was allegedly raped at her official residence and escaped attempted murder on Monday, reported the IANS . A case of rape was registered at the civil lines police station in the city on the complaint of the victim’s brother, however a medical examination was not conducted unt...

Senior advocate UU Lalit, with Abhimanyu Bhandari as counsel, acting independently of Axon Partners where he is a partner, and Karanjawala & Co partner and advocate-on-record Sandeep Kapur acted for jailed Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal, getting him bail to attend the funeral of his mother...

“Thus the prosecutrix (the wife) and the accused being legally wedded husband and wife, the prosecutrix being major, the sexual intercourse between the two, even if forcible, is not rape and no culpability can be fastened upon the accused,” said additional Delhi sessions judge Virender Bhat about a ...

Lawyer Nandita Saikia discusses how the recent criminal law recent reforms, imposing the death penalty for rape, are a symptom of the problem but not a solution.

India Today senior editor Gayatri Jayaraman has been live-tweeting diligently from the Mumbai sessions court in the Shakti Mills gang rape sentencing hearing today, at which the judge will decide whether the accused will get the death sentence.

The Supreme Court has said that the police should take action in the gang-rape of a woman in a village, which was allegedly ordered by a village panchayat as punishment for her affair. The bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam was apparently able to do little substantively in th...

Principal sessions judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi finds total of 5 men guilty of over two gang-rapes (of photo-journalist in a Mumbai mill last August and of telephone operator in July), two minors tried under juvenile act. Sentencing tomorrow [Hindustan Times]

A Supreme Court bench stayed the execution of two of the four men convicted for the rape and murder of a woman, dubbed Nirbhaya by the media, in December 2012.

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam ordered the Birbhum district judge to submit a detailed report about action taken by police in the West Bengal village ‘kangaroo court’-ordered gang rape case. The Supreme Court has appointed additional solicitor general Sidharth Luthra to ...