Budget 2018-19

  In March 2104, the trial court had convicted four persons for gangraping a 22-year-old photo-journalist inside the abandoned  Shakti Mills compound   in central Mumbai on August 22, 2013. The Bombay High Court on Thursday commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to three convicts in the  2013 gangrape case  of a 22-year-old photojournalist inside the defunct Shakti Mills compound in central Mumbai, saying that they “deserve imprisonment for life to repent the offence committed by them”. A division bench of Justices Sadhana Jadhav and Prithviraj Chavan refused to confirm the death penalty awarded to Vijay Jadhav, Mohammad Qasim Shaikh and Mohammad Ansari, and commuted their sentence to life imprisonment for the remainder of their lives. The bench, while pronouncing its order said that it cannot ignore the fact that the offence has shocked the collective conscience of the society and rape is a violation of human rights, but the sentence of death i...

  A 30-year-old woman was allegedly set on fire by parents of a man, who had been booked in a molestation case. A 30-year-old woman was allegedly set on fire by parents of a man, who had been booked in a molestation case lodged by the victim. The woman has been admitted to the  Jhansi medical college  in a critical condition. Kulpahar station house officer (SHO) Mahendra Pratap Singh said that the parents of the man were allegedly angry over the registration of the case against their son. “On Saturday, she had registered a case against her neighbour for beating and molesting her. The accused was taken into custody. The girl, later in a statement to police, said that angry over the registration of the case, parents of the accused poured kerosene over her and set her afire,” the SHO sai The mother of the accused has been taken into custody and the matter is being probed.