A crowd that had gathered outside the Saket courthouse was chanting Phaansi Do, Phaansi Do (hang them). The family-parents and brother - of the 23-year-old paramedic who was so brutally assaulted were present.
"Our fight for justice does not end here. We want the accused to be hanged," the mother said. The father was even more forceful. "Now that the court has held them guilty, we expect nothing else but the death sentence," he said. The chorus for death seemed more frustration than anger. The case that stirred the soul of the nation could only deter more of its kind for just fifteen days, from December 17 to January 2, as only four rape cases were registered in that period. Then, it was back to normal in the rape capital, with well over a thousand rapes between New Year's Day and Independence Day.
The protests didn't stop after the judgment was delivered, the fast-track court holding Mukesh (26), Vinay Sharma (20), Pawan Gupta (19) and Akshay Thakur (28) guilty of murder, gang rape, unnatural sex, criminal conspiracy, dacoity, destruction of evidence, kidnapping and attempting to murder the victim's male friend, the sole eyewitness. Sentence was not pronounced, however . The quantum of sentence will be argued in court on Wednesday.
One of the placards held by the protesters said it all. "Every girl here prays for her own death, but if she is alive it is because of her determination," it read.
Tanay Tapas
PGDM 1 Sem
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