December 16 was celebrated as Vijay Diwas till two years ago, in memory of the soldiers who lost their lives during the Bangladesh War of Liberation in 1971. But 2012 changed everything, when the young physiotherapist from Delhi was raped. She was
The increasing number of rapes in the country has made us think, will anything ever change? It has to. But how long do we hold our patience? (Photo: PTI)
According to reports, Shiv Kumar Yadav has also raped women in his village, including a lady he used to refer to as 'aunt' (Photo: PTI)
The most recent rape in Delhi, that of a 27-year-old MNC executive, allegedly by a Uber cab driver by the name of Shiv Kumar Yadav, has brought back the unfortunate memories of the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape. (Photo: PTI)
File photos of Mohammed Salim Ansari, Vijay Jadhav and Kasim Bengali who were sentenced to death by a Sessions court in Shakti Mills photojournalist gang-rape case in Mumbai (Photo: PTI)
They have been awarded death sentence as they had earlier been convicted of raping a telephone operator in the same premises. (Photo: PTI)
In April, the sessions court in Mumbai convicted Vijay Jadhav, Salim Ansari and Kasim Bengali, along with Siraj Khan in the Shakti Mills gangrape (Photo: PTI)
But the shame did not stop there. A 22-year-old photojournalist was gangraped at Shakti Mills in Mumbai at dusk. (Photo: PTI)
In the last two years, even Bangalore city, that was considered to be safe has seen several incidents of sexual crimes, mostly against minors. (Photo: PTI)
Right after the Delhi gangrape, a 5-year old was raped in Bangalore that further fuelled the then ongoing protests for stricter laws against rapes and other sexual crimes. (Photo: PTI)
These are the four people convicted in the Delhi gangrape, brothers Mukesh and Vinay Sharma, Akshay and Pawan (Photo: PTI)
Fast-track courts were set up as an immediate effect of the Delhi gangrape in addition to the three-member commission headed by Justice Verma, assigned to review laws for sexual crimes in the country. Among those accused, was a juvenile, who was to
After Nirbhaya's tragic demise, her parents did not have a problem with her name being in the public domain, demanding justice for their daughter. However, the Indian law does not prohibit the disclosure of the names of rape victims, as also any
But two years on, barely anything seems to have changed. According to a 24-year-old Meghlai Lama, a student in Delhi, "The cops at this bus stop (the infamous Munirka bus stop where Nirbhaya boarded the bus) have just been here for a few days -
December 16 horror: Two years on, women still unsafe