NHRC issues notice to Union Home Secretary and Delhi Police Commissioner in a Delhi rape case
New Delhi, 18th December, 2012
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports that a 23 year old girl was gang raped in a moving bus in Delhi on the 16th December, 2012. In its notices to the Union Home Secretary and Delhi Police Commissioner, the Commission has said that such acts are grave violation human rights. The incident has raised the issue of declining public confidence in the law and order machinery in the city, especially, in its capacity to ensure safety of women as, a number of such incidents have been reported in the National Capital in the recent past. They have been asked to submit a report within two weeks.
Reportedly,the victim and her male friend boarded a contract carriage luxury bus from Munirka in South Delhi for Palam around 9.30 pm on the 16th December,2012. There were only four other passengers on board, who were probably associates of the bus driver. After beating up the male friend with iron rods, they dragged the girl into the driver's cabin and gang raped her. Both the victims were robbed of their belongings and stripped . They were thrown off the bus near Mahipalpur flyover on the National Highway 8 at around 10.15 pm. A security guard alerted the police who rushed the victims to the Safdarjung Hospital. The girl is batting for life.
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The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports that a 23 year old girl was gang raped in a moving bus in Delhi on the 16th December, 2012. In its notices to the Union Home Secretary and Delhi Police Commissioner, the Commission has said that such acts are grave violation human rights. The incident has raised the issue of declining public confidence in the law and order machinery in the city, especially, in its capacity to ensure safety of women as, a number of such incidents have been reported in the National Capital in the recent past. They have been asked to submit a report within two weeks.
Reportedly,the victim and her male friend boarded a contract carriage luxury bus from Munirka in South Delhi for Palam around 9.30 pm on the 16th December,2012. There were only four other passengers on board, who were probably associates of the bus driver. After beating up the male friend with iron rods, they dragged the girl into the driver's cabin and gang raped her. Both the victims were robbed of their belongings and stripped . They were thrown off the bus near Mahipalpur flyover on the National Highway 8 at around 10.15 pm. A security guard alerted the police who rushed the victims to the Safdarjung Hospital. The girl is batting for life.
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