7 years down the line, we find out as to how effectively the Govt has dealt with the women safety issue
Seven years have passed, however, Nirbhaya is still awaiting justice. On the intervening night of December 16-17, a 23-year-old paramedic student who came to be known as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped inside a running bus in south Delhi by six people and was later thrown out on the road. The deceased later succumbed to her injuries. Asha devi, the mother of the victim, has yet again on Monday, appealed the government and judiciary to hang the four convicts. Whenever, this day, December 16 arrives, one question which probably hits all of us, is, whether anything related to women safety has really changed in our country, or the situation is still the same? Nirbhaya incident and other such instances of brutal rape have given India the dismal reputation of being one of the worst places in the world to be female. To answer the question if India has become safer for women in all these years, the statistics present a bleak picture. Statistics, bear out the stark reality faced by women in Indi