Woman who accused BSP MP Atula Rai of rape dies after setting herself on fire

A 24-year-old woman who had set herself on fire along with a man outside the Supreme Court here died on Tuesday The body was handed over to her family after post-mortem following which they cremated her at the Nigambodh Ghat here, they said. The woman had suffered 85% burns in the incident on August 16. The […]

Brawny is the qualification; low incomes and the lure of crime are big challenges for traditional wrestlers 

For traditional wrestlers jobs like enforcers, personal security, manning cash collection points like the toll plazas, even organised crime are a niche professional avenue with that come with greater risks than rewards   It’s an overcast Sunday evening, outside a popular bar in the Kailash Market in South Delhi, Samar Chaudhary is getting ready for his […]

Can the Crime capital become the Night Capital?

Despite subsequent Master Plans the promise of making Delhi’s nightlife safe and secure for all seems like a distant dream Master plan 2041 wishes to create a Capital city which will be awake, thriving with a nightlife. But the main concern when such a plan emerges, in a city where crime is rife, is security. […]

BJP vs AAP to win a communal incitement

A week since the murder of Rinku Sharma, a game to claim Hindu sentiments is on. However, police continue to deny any religious hostilities existed A young boy, Rinku Sharma’s murder in Outer district of Delhi’s Mangolpuri has led to a steady stream of politicians to his doorstep and heavy deployment of police in the […]

Cyber, economic offences: Delhi Police to hire forensic experts

The Delhi Police is planning to hire forensic experts for assistance in detection of cyber and financial frauds, as well as in collecting evidence from the crime scene, officials said. These experts will be hired in the categories of forensic general, forensic digital, forensic accounting, forensic psychological, forensic chemical, biology and physics, they said. A […]

Delhi court acquits 12 people in 2015 case of rioting, murder

A Delhi court Monday acquitted 12 people, arrested in a case related to the death of a woman due to gunshot injuries during rioting in 2015, saying manipulation of evidence by the police cannot be ruled out in the matter Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav acquitted Aas Mohd, Rajesh Kumar, Shahzad Ahmad, Mohd Rihan, Azaz, […]

Finger on the trigger

Do films glorifying crime, sexism and toxic masculinity, impact society in a negative way? Film-makers plead that they have creative licence and can’t be held responsible for the fallout ‘Kkkkkkiran.’  This is how a man (read: stalker) calls the ‘love of his life’ in a 1993 Bollywood film, which went on to become iconic. Shah […]

The case against death penalty

The government’s recent Ordinance on child rape is more of a political decision than a real answer to the problem In 2012, India stepped back in time, into the pro-death penalty era for the crime of rape. Before that, academicians, jurists, judges, lawyers and other intellectuals were thinking about the abolition of the death penalty […]