The CBI chargesheet, which comes almost exactly three months after the crime was committed, is an upward-looking sign of things moving forward in the case. But can we afford to let the pace of proceedings drop?

Don’t close the chapter on Jyoti’s case just yet. Remember her, what she went through and the many survivors of sexual crimes out there awaiting justice.

7 years after brutal gang rape, Nirbhaya convicts were hanged to death at Tihar Jail. Less than two hours before the execution, the Supreme Court dismissed the final petition by the convicts. The four who convicted in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case were hanged to death at 5.30am on Friday, ending a long […]

Ironically, just as the label of ‘justice’ is attached to punishment without the actual conclusion/carrying out of it, the label of a survivor is attached without any effort in actually assisting the victim to survive the trauma.

How many more girls and women will have suffer horrendous fate for us to finally look inwards as a society and acknowledge where we are lacking?

Now only Pawan Gupta is left to file his curative plea before he can file his mercy petition to the President. 

The Delhi Government told High Court that under the prison rules, they have to wait for the convict’s mercy plea to be decided for executing a death warrant. 

Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora noted that since the decision on the review petition of one of the convicts, Akshay Singh is pending in the Supreme Court and will be heard on December 17, the court will hear the parent’s plea on December 18.

After the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case, the biggest change that occurred is the police’s reaction towards crimes against women according to Chhaya Sharma. Sharma, who helped crack the case back in 2012 is now Deputy Inspector General, Investigation, at the National Human Rights Commission.

Chhaya Sharma, the IPS officer who investigated and caught the culprits of the most ‘heinous’ gang rape of the decade—Nirbhaya gang rape— is awarded the prestigious Courage and Leadership Award instituted by McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University, USA, this month. Each year, a honourary individual or group is recognised for fundamental values […]