It's already illegal to sell pornography in India. But the country's Supreme Court is contemplating an all-out ban on the stuff, and police in the city of Patna are preparing to crack down on cyber cafés and so-called "CD parlors" — all because they believe it could help curb India's rape epidemic.
The alleged leader of the brutal and widely-publicized Delhi gang rape that killed 23-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey was found dead in in his cell on Monday morning, but his family isn't buying the official story.
Despite the ongoing and controversial efforts of their lawyers to paint the alleged attackers as victims, it looks like swift justice will hammer down on the men accused of gang-raping a woman on a bus in New Delhi — and there's already been a prison fight.
After suggesting that his defense would center on blaming the New Delhi gang-rape victim for her own rape, Manohar Lal Sharma is now claiming that his clients were tortured into giving a confession.
Three men who police say brutally raped 23-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey on a bus in New Delhi — after which one of them allegedly tried to run her over with it — will plead not guilty to charges of rape and murder.
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