Every day a Nirbhaya is gang-raped and killed here: Asha Devi
Traumatised and disillusioned, Nirbhaya's parents recall the horrific incident five years on, and her mother says every girl's rape that she hears about, she believes it is her daughter's
Today marks five years of the brutal Delhi gang-rape incident, an incident that triggered nation-wide protests and led to the formation of new laws on crimes against women in the country.
But little has changed for Nirbhaya's parents. Depressed and down, Asha Devi says that every time a girl is raped in the Capital she feels that it is her daughter."Every day a Nirbhaya is gang-raped and killed in the city. Whenever, I hear about any such incident, I feel that it is happening with my daughter." Both mother and father want that a speedy justice delivery system in place.
But they doubt that will happen"Are these laws capable enough to stop Nirbhaya-like incidents from happening?", questions Nirbhaya's father Badrinath Singh. The man has been visiting the doors of the courts for last five years yet he is still waiting for the criminals of this gruesome act to be sent to the gallows.
"Even now in our daughter's case we are visiting courts and still after the final judgments, the criminals have not yet been punished," Singh told DNA. The matter is still with the Supreme Court.
This week Delhi Police opposed, in the Supreme Court, a plea filed by one of the four death-row convicts in the December 16, 2012 gang-rape and murder case for review of its verdict upholding capital punishment awarded to him. The apex court had on May 5 upheld the death penalty to the four convicts - Mukesh (29), Pawan (22), Vinay Sharma (23) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31), saying the "brutal, barbaric and diabolic nature" of the crime could create a "tsunami of shock to destroy a civilised society".
Singh further pointed out that even after lapse of five years the situation has not improved but deteriorated. "Today, two-year-old girls are being gang raped and murdered. Who is responsible for that? The system or the victims family," he questioned adding that it was the system that needed to protect the girls but it had failed to do so.
He reasoned saying, "When the system to punish the rapists is so weak and corrupt how can you accept justice in this society."
Singh further stated that every day two to three families are facing the same trauma and pain when their daughters, just like Nirbhaya, are being gang-raped and murder.
"See the case of Shimla gang rape, the police arrested the wrong people. Is this a system? Even CBI has not been able to identify the accused," said Singh adding that there are several such incidents across the country.
"There is complete lack of will on the part of government to come up with a system where such criminals are punished in an year," he said.
WHAT HAPPENED
A 23-year-old paramedic student was gangraped on the intervening night of December 16, 2012 inside a moving bus in South Delhi by a gang of six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out of the bus. She succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
STATISTICS
RAPE(376 IPC)
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706 1636 2166 2199 2155 1992 1968
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