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In India according to Section 300 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, murder is defined as follows: . Murder.--Except in the cases hereinafter excepted, culpable homicide is murder, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or- 167 2ndly.-If it is done with the intention of causing such bodily injury as the offender knows to be likely to cause the death ...
[16] [7] The juvenile Mohammed Afroz was convicted of rape and murder and given the maximum sentence of three years' imprisonment in a reform facility, as per the Juvenile Justice Act. [ 17 ] As a result of the protests, in December 2012, a judicial committee was set up to study and take public suggestions for the best ways to amend laws to ...
On 9 August 2024, a 31-year-old female postgraduate trainee doctor [4] at R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, was raped and murdered in a college building. Her body was found in a seminar room on campus.
India has been characterised as one of the "countries with the lowest per capita rates of rape". [9] [10] Many rapes go unreported in various countries including India. [11] [12] The willingness to report rape has increased in recent years, after several incidents of rape received widespread media attention and triggered public protest.
The body declared that no lawyer in Barasat would stand for the accused. In the evening hundreds of residents brought out a candlelight procession in Baguiati, Kolkata. [ 13 ] On 18 June, around 400 government employees of the Writers' Building marched around the Writers' Building in protest against the Kamduni gang rape and murder.
The Kathua rape case involved the abduction, gang rape, and murder of an 8-year-old Muslim girl, Asifa Bano, by seven Hindu males (six men and a juvenile) in January 2018 in the Rasana village near Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir, India. A chargesheet for the case was filed, the accused were arrested and the trial began in Kathua on 16 April 2018.
On 25 September 2024, a 31 year old Muktiranjan Pratap Ray killed 29 year old Mahalakshmi in Bangalore in a similar manner. Her body was chopped off in 59 pieces and stuffed in a refrigerator for 18 days. Ray spent the entire night after the murder contemplating on how to dispose the body. Later, he committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree.
The Khairlanji massacre (or Kherlanji massacre) was the murder of four Scheduled Caste citizens by villagers of Khairlanji on 29 September 2006. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The killings took place in the small Indian village of Khairlanji (Kherlanji), located in the Bhandara district of the state of Maharashtra .