In 2012, the All India Progressive Women’s Association had staged a protest in front of Dikshit’s house against the gangrape. When asked about women’s safety by ensuring proper street lighting and CCTV installations, Dikshit said it was not her government’s responsibility as the Delhi government comes under the central government. “Sometimes you ignore rapes, just a little thing in the newspaper.little children being raped.and one was made into a political scandal.”
The outrage had forced the government to introduce new anti-rape laws.ĭikshit told Mirrow Now there were several cases of rape across the country. The crime had triggered country-wide protests and demands for better safety of women.
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On May 5, 2017, the Supreme Court upheld the verdicts of the Delhi High Court and the trial court. A minor convict was released in December 2015 after serving three years in a detention home for juveniles, while one convict died in prison.Ī trial court had ordered death sentences for the convicts in September 2013, which was upheld by the Delhi High Court six months later. The woman succumbed to her injuries two weeks later at a hospital in Singapore. Six men had raped and brutally assaulted a 23-year-old student in a moving bus in Delhi on December 16, 2012. However, the United Progressive Alliance led by her party, the Congress, was in power at the Centre when the gangrape took place. “There are so many cases like this taking place today,” she said in an interview to Mirror Now.ĭikshit, who served as the chief minister of the Union Territory for 15 years from 1998 to 2013, claimed her government had no role to play in the security situation and that “law and order was under the purview of the central government”.
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