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Rajiv Gandhi was not the only one who was killed in the blasts: When kin of those who died along with him were upset...

Editorial Desk -
When Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated, 13 others had died along with him. What right would Sonia Gandhi have to 'forgive' killers of those 13 people too?
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Who is she to tell me to follow Sonia Gandhi’s footsteps? Because of people like her, justice not done to rape victims: Nirbhaya’s mother...

OpIndia Staff -
Nirbhaya's mother, Asha Devi, reacting sharply to Indira Jaising's suggestion said that because of people like her (Jaising), rape victims don't get justice
News Reports

Advocate Indira Jaising asks Nirbhaya’s mother to ‘forgive’ her daughter’s rapists like Sonia Gandhi forgave Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins

OpIndia Staff -
On Saturday, senior Supreme Court advocate Indira Jaising gave a shocking advise to Nirbhaya's mother.
News Reports

Politics being played over our daughter’s death, AAP govt responsible for delay in hanging the convicts: Nirbhaya’s parents

OpIndia Staff -
Nirbhaya's parents says danging of the convicts were delayed for political benefit
Crime

Nirbhaya convicts cannot be hanged on January 22: Delhi government tells HC as one convict’s mercy plea is pending

OpIndia Staff -
The four convicts were to be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar jail. Soon after the Supreme court rejected the curative petitions, Mukesh had filed his mercy plea before the President.
News Reports

The ‘Ranga-Billa’ monicker: As Arundhati Roy asks people to call themselves ‘Ranga-Billa’ for NPR, read the violent history of those names

OpIndia Staff -
Arundhati Roy suggested people should mislead the government by giving manipulative data by giving their names as Ranga and Billa for NPR.
News Reports

Pakistan sentences scholar Junaid Hafeez to death for blasphemy in a 2013 case

OpIndia Staff -
Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer at the Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan was sentenced to death for blasphemy
Crime

2008 Jaipur blast case: Special court awards death penalty to all four Islamist terrorists

OpIndia Staff -
On Wednesday, a special court in Jaipur had convicted four people for the 2008 Jaipur blasts, which killed nearly 80 people and left many others injured. The quantum of sentence was announced on Friday by the special court. 
News Reports

Musharraf’s corpse should be dragged to D-Chowk in Islamabad, hanged for three days: Pakistan court

OpIndia Staff -
Two of the three judges, Justice Seth and Justice Karim gave the death sentence while Justice Nazarullah Akbar wrote a dissenting note saying that the prosecution team could not prove treason case. 
Editor's picks

Nirbhaya case: SC rejects review petition filed by convict but Delhi HC does not give death warrant, next hearing on 7th January

OpIndia Staff -
Upholding the 2017 verdict, the apex court dismissed the review petition saying “it did not find any error on the face of it."
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