Nirbhaya gangrape: Nation remembers Delhi braveheart; parents feel 'justice not delivered'
16 Dec 2015 2:18 PM IST
Nirbhaya gangrape: Nation remembers Delhi braveheart; parents feel 'justice not delivered'
The victim and her male friend boarded a chartered bus at about 9.30 pm at Munirka for Dwarka on the night of December 16, 2012 after watching the film Life of Pi in Saket in South Delhi.- CPM leader Brinda Karat addresses protesters during a demonstration demanding justice for the victim, at Jantar Mantar
- Sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik creates a sculpture to pay homage to Nirbhaya, in Puri.
- Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna said while delivering the verdict in the case that had evoked nationwide outrage. The court also termed the case as 'rarest of rare'.
- On 10 September 2013, the four adult defendants were found guilty of rape, murder, unnatural offences and destruction of evidence and was given death penalty.
- Genelia Deshmukh and Mandira Bedi during a candle light rally to pay tribute to victim, in Mumbai.
- Nearly nine months after the brutal gangrape in New Delhi on December 16, 2012, a fast-track court on Sept 13, 2013, handed over death penalty to all the four - Mukesh Kumar, Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta, the convicts in the case.
- Her body was cremated on 30 December in Delhi under high police security.
- Her body was moved to the mortuary in the Singapore General Hospital before being flown back to India by a chartered plane.
- The young girl suffered a cardiac arrest which caused severe injuries to her brain as well.
- The girl was transported to the well-known multi-organ transplant facility, Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore in an extremely critical condition.
- The victim had become widely known as Nirbhaya as her identity was withheld by government.
- Soon, public protests began against the state and central governments for failing to provide adequate security for women in New Delhi, where thousands of people clashed with security forces. Similar protests took place in major cities throughout the
- The gruesome incident generated widespread national and international coverage and was widely condemned, both in India and abroad.
- The partially clothed victims were found on the road by a passerby at around 11 pm. The passerby phoned the Delhi Police, who took the couple to Safdarjung Hospital, where the female victim was given emergency treatment and placed on mechanical
- After the beatings and rape ended, the attackers threw both the victims from the moving bus. Then the bus driver allegedly tried to drive the bus over the woman, but she was pulled aside by her male friend.
- According to police, the minor was the most brutal attacker and had sexually abused his victim twice. The woman attempted to fight off her assailants, biting three of the attackers.
- Medical reports later said that the woman suffered serious injuries to her abdomen, intestines and genitals due to the assault, and doctors said that the damage indicated that a blunt object (suspected to be the iron rod) may have been used for
- When her friend tried to intervene, he was beaten up, gagged and knocked unconscious with an iron rod. The men then dragged the woman to the rear of the bus, beating her with the rod and raping her while the bus driver continued to drive.
- The woman's friend became suspicious when the bus deviated from its normal route and its doors were shut. The group of six men taunted the couple, asking what they were doing alone at such a late hour.
- There were only six others in the bus, including the driver. One of the men, a minor, had called for passengers telling them that the bus was going towards Dwarka.
The victim and her male friend boarded a chartered bus at about 9.30 pm at Munirka for Dwarka on the night of December 16, 2012 after watching the film Life of Pi in Saket in South Delhi.
Nirbhaya gangrape: Nation remembers Delhi braveheart; parents feel 'justice not delivered'
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