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Mother, I want to live: #Delhi #gangrape victim

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Even as Delhi‘s 23-year-old gangrape victim’s condition deteriorated, she has shown immense sipirt to live.

According to television reports, in a written communication to her mother, the girl has said: “Maa, main jeena chahti hoon” (Mother, I want to live).

Several politicians have been visiting the girl at Safdarjung Hospital where she was admitted after being brutally sexually assaulted in a moving bus on Sunday night.

On Tuesday night, Congress president Sonia Gandhi also visited the hospital to meet the rape victim.

Her condition, which had improved a little after she was operated upon on Sunday night, deteriorated Monday evening. Doctors are battling to keep infections at bay as the injuries are extensive. Her platelet count had dropped, with blood pressure being unstable.

The next 24 hours are critical. If she pulls through, her chances of survival will improve, say doctors.

Specialists from AIIMS trauma centre have been called in before doctors decide whether the girl needs to be operated upon further. They hope to curb further spread of infection.

Meanwhile, taking suo motu cognisance of the gruesome incident, Delhi High Court asked Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar to file the status report in two days.

Delhi High Court, which rapped the police for failing to prevent the rape in a moving bus, asked the government to provide best medical facilities to the victim and her friend.

Four of the six men who allegedly raped the girl have been arrested. The driver of the bus, in which she was gangraped and tortured, has been remanded to police custody for five days. Serch is on for two more culprits who are absconding.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has also issued notices to Home Ministry and Delhi Police and sought a report on the incident within two weeks.  

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Delhi gang-rape: ‘Confident rapists carried on with normal work after crime’

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The six men, who allegedly gang-raped a young girl in a moving bus in Delhi on Sunday, were apparently so confident they will not be caught that the assailants carried on with their routine chores the next day while one brought back the vehicle to his house.

But luck ran out for the men within 24 hours as police, who were aided by the description provided by the victims about the vehicle, zeroed in on them and even arresting one from Rajasthan where he was in hiding.

Just before raping the 23-year-old para-medical student in a moving bus on Sunday night and beating her male friend who tried to protect her, the gang of six men, two of them still absconding, looted a carpenter by providing him a lift in the bus.

These details that emerged during the ongoing probe into the dastardly crime were given by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar at a news conference on Tuesday.

The arrested have been identified as driver Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh, Pawan, a fruit seller, and Vinay, an assistant instructor in a gymnasium. Two persons Akshay Thakur and Raju are still on the run.

“Pawan and Vinay went back to their normal vocations and pretended nothing happened while Ram Singh and Akshay took the bus to Noida in the early hours of Monday to avoid being caught.

“But later Ram Singh thought nothing would happen and brought the vehicle back to R K Puram where it was detected on secret information and while all similar vehicles were being checked,” Kumar said.

Just before heading for a joyride, he said, they had a party. Ram Singh and his helper Akshay had cooked chicken and had a small party along with his younger brother Mukesh, also a driver-cum-cleaner and staying in the same neighbourhood.

“They decided to go for a joy ride and have fun while picking some extra bucks from giving lift to people so that more drinks can be bought,” Chhaya Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), said.

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Four suspects detained in Delhi gang-rape case

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Four suspects have been detained by Delhi Police for the gang-rape of a girl in a moving bus, police said on Monday. The condition of the girl is critical.

“We have detained four people and have impounded two buses,” said a police official.

The incident took place on Sunday night, when the victim, a para-medical student and her boyfriend, boarded the bus from Munirka to go to Dwarka, after watching a movie.

Police said that around five to seven bus crew started misbehaving with the girl a few minutes after she boarded the bus, which had no other passengers.

The victim’s boyfriend tried to prevent the men from molesting her, but the men beat him up and sexually assaulted the girl.

The accused then threw the girl and her boyfriend out of the bus near Mahipalpur in south Delhi‘s Vasant Vihar area.

Both victims were rushed to Safdarjung Hospital by a PCR van. While the girl battles for life, her boyfriend was discharged and police have recorded his statement and registered a case.

The boy’s uncle said, “Five to seven persons attacked the couple.”

“When my nephew tried to save the girl, he was beaten with iron rods… the girl was then gang-raped,” he said.

Meanwhile, the chairperson of the National Commission for Women, Mamta Sharma, said she would talk to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the issue.

“We will talk to the chief minister, take cognizance of the matter and inquire into it, as also keep tabs on the police investigations,” Sharma said.

“Such incidents are on the rise in the capital and this is due to the ignorance of the government as well the police force. If an incident like this can take place in the thickly populated Munirka area, it just shows that the police is not alert,” she said.

Sharma said the girl’s “male friend may have been involved with the accused.”

Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that “neither the home ministry nor Delhi Police are able to check such incidents” which have been on the rise.

“Delhi’s law and order is being handled very irresponsibly by the Delhi government,” he said.