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Rape cases in #Rajasthan increased by 81% in 2019 compared to two years ago.
3305 cases were reported in 2017 which rose to 5997 in 2019.
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Statistics show maximum Rape cases are fm #Rajasthan
Nearly 6000 rape cases were reported in #Rajasthan followed by UP with 3065 cases in 2019
If #PriyankaGandhi has any real concern for women she will visit Rajasthan first to put her house in order
Stop doing Rape Politics
Many liberals are defaming India over #Hathras rape case .
Let's checkout the world statistics.
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South Africa has the highest rate of rape in the world 132 incidents per 1,000,000 people
India rate of rape is 1.80 ,population
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Does the death penalty stop crime?

Don’t victims of violent crime and their families have a right to justice?

What business is it of Amnesty’s if different societies want to use the death penalty?

Get your facts straight about the #deathpenalty👇
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Victims of violent crime and their families do have a right to justice. In opposing the death penalty, we at Amnesty are not trying to minimize or condone crime.

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Those who have lost loved ones in terrible crimes have a right to see the person responsible held to account in a fair trial without recourse to the #deathpenalty.

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Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Akshay Thakur were executed today for the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in 2012.

Here's an important #thread on why #deathpenalty is never the solution.
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In Dec 2012 the Justice Verma Committee reviewed 80,000 public suggestions to improve safety for women & amend laws to speed up the investigation process & deliver timely justice.

Their report included many solutions, #deathpenalty was never one of them.
"What is actually needed are effective, long-term solutions like prevention and protection mechanisms to reduce gender-based violence, improving investigations, prosecutions and support for victims’ families" said Avinash Kumar, Executive Director of @AIIndia.

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Bodies of 4 men brought down from the gallows.
Jail rules says that the bodies have to remain suspended for half an hour after the hanging.
Barricades are now being put outside Tihar main gate. Bodies to be taken to DDU hospital for a postmortem. @ThePrintIndia #NirbhayaCase
The postmortem examination of the four men will be conducted at DDU hospital at 8 am. The postmortem will be videographed. @ThePrintIndia #NirbhayaCase
Doctors have examined bodies of all four men and have declared them dead. The men were hanged at 5:30 am today @ThePrintIndia #NirbhayaCase
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Delhi High Court will shortly hear plea by #Nirbhaya convicts against the Trial Court order refusing to stay the execution of death warrant.

The four convicts are scheduled to be hanged tomorrow ie. March 20 at 5:30 am.

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Standing Counsel (Crl) for Delhi Govt, Rahul Mehra, Nirbhaya's parents and counsel for convicts, Adv AP Singh present in Court.

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Matter to be heard by a Division Bench headed by Justice Manmohan.

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#SupremeCourt now dismisses a petition by #NirbhayaCase convict Mukesh who claims he wasn't in Delhi when the crime took place and wanted access to certain records.
The court is now hearing a separated plea challenging rejection of convict Akshay's mercy plea by @rashtrapatibhvn.

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Now, the Patiala House court has rejected the plea by #NirbhayaCase convicts to suspend the execution since their petitions are pending in different courts.

Hanging at 5.30 AM tomorrow.
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Nirbhaya: Supreme Court begins hearing a plea filed by one of the convicts, Mukesh, which claims that there was concealment of documents and thus trial stands vitiated.

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Three-Judge Bench takes up the matter for hearing.

Advocate ML Sharma begins making the submissions on behalf of one of the convicts in the 2012 Delhi rape case, Mukesh.

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Sharma says that petitioner has accepted his fate and does not seek to delay the execution; says that in future no innocent person should be made to suffer on account of media pressure.

Sharma says, the question is if justice was given to the accused.

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After more than four and a half years of not having anyone executed, India is all set to execute Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Akshay Thakur on Friday, 20 March. The 4 were convicted for the gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old woman in 2012.

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We share the extreme anguish and pain of the family of the victim and in no way wish to further their suffering. But we appeal to the Govt of India to halt the cycle of violence and stop the executions of the 4 convicted.

Executions do not stop violence against women. Image
There is no evidence to show that the death penalty acts as a unique deterrent. Two thirds of the countries have abolished #deathpenalty.
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#NirbhayaCase hearing in #SupremeCourt on point of separate hanging of convicts: SG Tushar Mehta, appearing for the #DelhiPolice & #Delhi Govt says trial court couldn't have extended the date of execution after the seven-day period given by the HC had got over.
AP Singh, lawyer for two convicts, submits in the #SupremeCourt that Akshay's second mercy petition is still pending.

Mehta says the convicts are making a mockery of the system. They can't keep coming back to court with one plea or another & getting it delayed for all.
Delhi Govt, Police ask for a specific order from the #SupremeCourt that Mukesh and Vinay must be hanged on March 20. SG Mehta says he is apprehensive that the trial judge might extend the date of execution yet again on some grounds.

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#Nirbhaya: Three-Judge Bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna begins hearing convict Vinay's challenge to the rejection of his mercy petition by the President.
What is your argument?, Court repeatedly asks Adv AP Singh.

Please see the record.. there is miscarriage of justice. There is absence of signature of Home Minister and LG's signature on the official file: Adv Singh

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Adv Singh asserts that Home Minister of Delhi Govt and L-G did not sign the official file due to the Assembly Elections.

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#NirbhayaCase hearing in the #SupremeCourt: Court gives convicts time till tomorrow afternoon to file replies to the petition by the Centre & the #Delhi Govt to separately hang the convicts.
Sr adv Anjana Prakash appointed as amicus curiae for convict Pawan Gupta, who claimed he doesn't have a lawyer to assist him.

#SupremeCourt is currently hearing a plea by convict Vinay against rejection of his mercy plea by the@rashtrapatibhvn.
#SupremeCourt order by on Vinay's appeal against rejection of his mercy plea by the@rashtrapatibhvn to be delivered at 2 PM tomorrow.

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#NirbhayaCase hearing begins in the #SupremeCourt. SG Tushar Mehta starts by saying the Supreme Court will have to lay down the law eventually. Nation's patience has been tested enough now, adds Mehta.
Mehta: Out of 4, all remedies have been exhausted for 3 #NirbhayaCase convicts. Pawan Gupta has chosen not to avail of any remedy. "Are the authorities require to wait indefinitely? Can a calculated attempt to delay matters create perpetual uncertainty over execution?" asks Mehta
Justice Ashok Bhushan, in the context of Pawan having not filed curative: "Nobody can be compelled to use legal remedy. It is for them to decide."

Justice R Banumathi: "Delhi High Court has now given them a week to avail all possible legal remedies."

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Arguing against rejection of Mukesh's mercy plea by the @rashtrapatibhvn in the #NirbhayaCase, his lawyer tells the #SupremeCourt that Mukesh, his brother Ram Singh were sexually abused in Tihar Jail. Ram Singh didn't commit suicide inside the prison but was murdered.
Through senior lawyer Anjana Prakash, Mukesh levels serious accusations against Tihar Jail authorities. He claims he was forced to have sex with Akshay, another accused in the #NirbhayaCase. Mukesh also claims he was put in solitary confinement | @News18Courtroom
SG Tushar Mehta appears for #DelhiPolice, calls it ironical that someone who snatched life form a young girl is now defining importance of a life. He says court has very limited scope of judicial review after #President found Mukesh's case unworthy of any mercy.
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Nirbhaya: Three-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan, and AS Bopanna begins hearing the plea filed by one of the convicts, Mukesh, against the rejection of his mercy plea.

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Anjana Prakash, Counsel for Mukesh, tells the Court that the mercy plea was rejected shortly after the curative petition filed hy Mukesh was dismissed by the Supreme Court

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Prakash argues that due consideration was not given to Mukesh's plea.

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#SupremeCourt begins hearing of a petition by #NirbhayaCase convict Pawan who has claimed he was a juvenile when the crime was committed.
AP Singh claims #DelhiPolice concealed records pertaining to date of birth of Pawan. His school certificates were deliberately concealed, claims Pawan's lawyer.
Singh says #NirbhayaCase convict Pawan's real date of birth is Oct 8, 1996 and that #DelhiPolice deliberately did not show these records in any court.

Justice Ashok Bhushan points out these records were obtained in Feb 2017 after he was convicted.
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#NirbhayaCase convicts' lawyer AP Singh may not have the best legal arguments to make in a courtroom but he surely knows how to manipulate the system.

Hours after Akshay's review petition gets junked, he has got Vinay to file a plea in #Delhi HC, claiming he was a minor in 2012.
A sessions judge held against Vinay's juvenility claim in Dec 2018 but Singh got the #NirbhayaCase convict to sign on Dec 12 an appeal against this order. Singh has got a school leaving certificate to claim Vinay was a minor. #Delhi HC will hear the plea tomorrow. ImageImage
Correction: #NirbhayaCase convict claiming juvenility is Pawan, not Vinay.
Vinay is the one whose mercy petition was filed before President, recommended for rejection by #Delhi Govt & MHA. And then AP Singh entered the scene, said Vinay never signed it while seeking to withdraw
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#NirbhayaCase hearing commences in the #SupremeCourt. Akshay's lawyer AP Singh gets 30 min to argue the review petition.
Judges ask Singh not to argue on facts already settled by the #SupremeCourt in its previous judgment.
Singh starts by blaming media for putting undue pressure on courts to convict his client.

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Akshay's lawyer claims Nirbhaya's friend, who was the prosecution's star witness, is a tainted witness. He took bribe and even a documentary series recorded it. Singh adds star witness can't be relied.

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Review petition by fourth convict Akshay in the #NirbhayaCase is taken up by a three-judge bench. #CJISABobde tells Akshay's lawyer that he will get 30 minutes to argue.

Nirbhaya's parents are also present in the court.
Adv AP Singh, for Akshay, claims there was public and political pressure that brought conviction upon his client.

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#CJI SA Bobde withdraws from the case since his nephew happened to be associated with this case on behalf of Nirbhaya's family. A new bench will be notified by the #CJI tomorrow morning. The review will be heard tomorrow now by a new bench.

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