-The Hindustan Times The Delhi Police, the Delhi government and some central departments are likely to face the flak in Justice Verma two-volume report. The report will be submitted to the home ministry and will be made public on Wednesday. Exactly a month after it was set up, the panel headed by former chief justice of India JS Verma, with former high court chief justice Leila Seth and former solicitor general Gopal...
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Protests justified, wish I was there, my nephew was beaten up: CJI
-The Indian Express Maintaining that the “public upsurge” against the Delhi gangrape incident was “justified”, Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir Monday said, “I wish I could also have been there, but I can’t.” He said his nephew was also “beaten up” during the protest at India Gate which was “hijacked” later. “What happened that day is not new, it has been happening, but it caught the imagination of the people and...
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-Outlook A parliamentary panel, probing road safety issues in the aftermath of the Delhi gangrape case, has expressed serious concern over cases of a large number of buses and autorickshaws in Delhi being registered under fake addresses. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, headed by CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, felt that criminals got away easily taking advantage of the duality and multiplicity of the policing and security system in the national capital. It...
More »Surrogacy and homophobia: India bans gay parents -Sandip Roy
-FirstPost.com Aditya Advani always knew that he wanted to have children. He also knew he was gay. Twenty years ago gay marriage was just a fantasy. Few gay couples had children – whether their own or adopted – even in the US where Advani had emigrated. But that did not deter him from bringing up the subject with potential boyfriends such as Michael Tarr, the man who is now his partner. “The...
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-The Telegraph About 706 cases of rape were reported in Delhi in 2012, the highest in the past decade. The statistics have brought into focus how unsafe the national capital has become for women over the past few years. A total of 572 rape cases were reported in 2011 as against 507 in 2010, 469 in 2009 and 466 in 2008. The annual report presented by Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar today also highlighted...
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