A Bengal court sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a minor girl, calling it a rarest of rare case. The judge noted, “The victim was the same age as his daughter.”
Today, On 25th February, The Supreme Court scheduled an urgent hearing on a plea challenging the first trial run for disposing of Bhopal gas tragedy waste. Justice Gavai told the Madhya Pradesh State counsel that the court would not interfere unless it was proven that the waste transportation and dumping posed a risk to Pithampur’s local population. The case raises environmental and public health concerns regarding the safe disposal of toxic waste.