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Mar 19, 2019 · The crime—the gang rape of 23-year-old physiotherapy student, Jyoti Singh, committed by six men on a bus in the capital territory of Delhi—was so brutal that it shocked the world and jolted the Indian legal system into reconsidering its protections for women.
- Ram Singh. He was 30 at the time of the incident, and the oldest member of the group. Originally from Rajasthan, he lived in Sant Ravi Dass Camp, a slum in South Delhi.
- Mukesh (34) Mukesh was Ram Singh's younger brother. He lived with Ram Singh and was a cleaner on the bus. Mukesh, then 26, was driving the bus that night and he was the one who lured the victims to board it.
- Vinay Sharma (28) Then 20, Sharma also live in Sant Ravi Dass Camp. He had the most promising future. In fact, Sharma could have been a mascot for Aspiring India.
- Akshay Thakur (36) Then 28, Thakur had fled to his village in Bihar after the crime, from where the police picked him up within days. Thakur is married and has a 10-year-old son.
Dec 16, 2022 · Nirbhaya Rape Case. The physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as 'Nirbhaya' (fearless) was beaten, gang raped, and tortured in a running bus while returning home in the capital city.
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 Munirka, a neighbourhood in South Delhi. The incident took place when Jyoti Singh, a 22-year-old physiotherapy intern, was beaten , gang-raped , and tortured in a private bus in which she was ...
Four Indian men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi in 2012 have been hanged. Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were sentenced to death by a trial...
Dec 6, 2022 · The decision to bring the death penalty for heinous cases of rape and gang rape in 2013 was in part a populist measure by the government, as protests had grown across the country, fuelled by...
Dec 15, 2022 · Protests were held across India demanding the death penalty for Nirbhaya's rapists. Asha Devi's activism is rooted in her own experiences, her own lengthy battle with justice and the pain of...
