Supreme Court of India

In Re: Recent Rape Incidents in Delhi Ncr

Neutral citation
Bench J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran JJ.
Decided 28 September 2026

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

What the Court ordered

The Registry is directed to register this matter and number the same as suo-moto writ petition (Criminal) in public interest.

Judgment, 15

In brief

The Court took cognisance, on its own motion, of a series of news reports of sexual offences against women and minor girls across the Delhi NCR, including an alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old at Aastha Kunj Park, the alleged gang rape and murder of a teenage girl in Swaroop Nagar whose decomposed body was recovered from a field, and an alleged sexual assault of a minor inside a moving sleeper bus which travelled over 47 km from Greater Noida to Delhi without interception.…

Authorities it was built on

  • Avishek Goenka v. Union of India & Anr

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the Supreme Court's own signed PDF — the original file as the Registry published it, not a copy somebody has watermarked or re-branded
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.