Nirbhaya case: Supreme Court rejects review plea of rape convict Akshay Kumar Singh

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the review petition filed by Akshay Kumar Singh in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. Akshay Singh is one of six accused in the case. Of the total, prime accused Ram Singh had committed suicide in the Tihar jail during the trial of the case. Another accused in the matter was a minor and had appeared before a juvenile justice court.

Out on bail after filming woman while bathing, man attacks her with sickle

KORBA: A 35-year-old woman was seriously injured when a man, arrested earlier for shooting an obscene video of her, allegedly attacked her with a sickle in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district, the police said. Indrapal Tonde (40), the accused, had recently obtained bail, a police official said on Saturday. “Tonde attacked the woman on Friday near Budhwari…