Nirbhaya case

"There should be a probe into why the minor girl changed her statement, whether she was pressured by anyone," said Asha Devi while speaking with India Today TV. The second statement was recorded under Section 164 of the CrPC. ALSO READ | Despite the father's statement that sexual harassment charges have been withdrawn, there is no evidence to suggest what the minor recorded in her second statement. The statement of a victim in a sexual offence case, particularly under the Pocso Act, is kept sealed and completely confidential, as per the procedure. The contents of the statement cannot be placed in the public domain. Asha Devi spoke in support of the protesting wrestlers and said if an investigation is not conducted properly into the allegations, and they do not get justice, it would be a "blot on our justice system". She also said "politics" in the case has made the protesting wrestlers "suffer even more" and called for Brij Bhushan Singh's arrest. ALSO READ | Nirbhaya's mother also said the case is "sending out a wrong message". "If this is the state with the women who have won medals for the country, then what will happen to the girls in our cities and villages who are facing similar crimes?" asked Asha Devi. She said it was not right for the Delhi Police to "manhandle" the wrestlers during their protest march to the new Parliament building when it was inaugurated on May 28. Asha Devi also alleged that the Delhi Police has let "many criminals slip through their singers be...

On the dark and cold night of December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old woman was brutally assaulted and raped in a moving bus in south Delhi. Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old female physiotherapy intern was beaten, gang-raped, and tortured on December 16, 2012, in Munirka, a neighbourhood in South Delhi. She was travelling with her friend, Awindra Pratap Pandey. • What happened on December 16, 2012? The woman and her friend Pandey were returning home after watching the movie "Life of Pi" on the night of December 16, 2012. They boarded an off-duty charter bus at Munirka bus stand in which there were six other men including the bus driver. The bus started moving in an off-route direction and the men shut the doors of the vehicle. Suspecting something wrong, when Pandey raised an objection, he was shouted down and a scuffle broke out as the men who were drunk started molesting her. Her friend was knocked down with a rod and the men dragged her to the back of the bus and repeatedly gang-raped for over an hour. As she fought back, one of the juvenile attackers inserted an iron rod into her private parts, pulling and ripping her intestines apart. The bus driver drove all over Delhi while this was happening. After the attack, both of them were thrown out of the bus to die at the side of the road. The two were found half-dead by a passerby who informed the Delhi Police. She was taken to the Safdarjung Hospital where doctors found she had only five per cent intestines left inside her body. She s...

Highlights • Supreme Court dismissed their final petition two hours before execution • The entire Tihar Jail was on lockdown through the night • The four had filed multiple petitions over the past few months New Delhi: Seven years after a young medical student was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi, a crime that shocked India, four of her killers were hanged at 5.30 am on Friday. The pre-dawn execution took place less than two hours after the Supreme Court dismissed the final petition of the convicts. In the hours before that, the convicts had also petitioned the Delhi High Court, where their lawyer cited coronavirus for the lack of proper documents for a hurriedly-filed appeal. Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32, were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail, where they spent the last few hours in isolation in separate cells, barely eating. They hardly slept and refused a last meal or any last wish, said officials. One of them begged for his life as he was led to the gallows. The entire jail was on lockdown since last night, and officials said, few other prisoners in Asia's largest prison facility could sleep a wink ahead of the first execution since 2015. The convicts were woken at 3.30 am, around the time they learnt they had reached the end of the road in courts. The four filed multiple petitions over the past few months, managing to stall their execution thrice at the eleventh hour. "Send them to the India-Pakistan border, sen...

"Nirbhaya" redirects here. For the 2021 film, see The 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder, commonly known as the Nirbhaya case, involved a rape and fatal assault that occurred on 16 December 2012 in Nirbhaya, meaning "fearless", and her struggle and death became a symbol of women's resistance to rape around the world. 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder Protesters at Date 16 December 2012 Time 9:54 pm Location Outcome • Ram Singh died during the trial period • Four adult convicts sentenced to death; all were executed on 20 March 2020 at 5:30 AM IST at the Tihar Prison Complex, New Delhi. • Juvenile convict Mohammed Afroz released on 20 December 2015 • The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill 2015 was passed by the Rajya Sabha Deaths Jyoti Singh Non-fatal injuries Awindra Pratap Pandey Convicted • Mukesh Singh • Vinay Sharma • Pawan Gupta • Akshay Thakur • Ram Singh • Mohammed Afroz Verdict Guilty Convictions Rape, murder, kidnapping, robbery, assault Sentence • Death sentence to four adult convicts • Juvenile convict served the maximum imprisonment of three years under • Adult convicts executed on 20 March 2020 All the accused were arrested and charged with As a result of the protests, in December 2012, a judicial committee was set up to study and take public suggestions for the best ways to amend laws to provide quicker investigation and prosecution of sex offenders. After considering about 80,000 suggestions, the committee submitted a report which in...