New Delhi: Just four days before the alleged gang rape at Hathras, the Uttar Pradesh police chief had written to senior officers saying repeated incidents of sexual crimes and murder of the victims were making women feel unsafe and also spoiling the image of the state police. ET has accessed director general of police HC … Read more
NEW DELHI: A month and half before the Hathras incident, the Centre had asked states to set up a “response mechanism” to promptly deal with incidents of crime against the “vulnerable, oppressed and deprived sections of society”. The directive was issued after the National Human Rights Commission took suo motu cognisance of alleged sexual exploitations … Read more
On November 27, 2014, after a five-month probe, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) closed a case of alleged rape and murder of two teenage girls reported on May 27, 2014, in Katra, a village in western Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district. The searing image of the two bodies hanging from a mango tree with villagers … Read more