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The condition of the23-year-old para-medical student, who was gang-rapedby a group of men in a moving bus in Delhi, deteriorated this evening after which she has been put on "full-time ventilatory support", doctors attending on her said.
The girl's condition in the morning was "better than yesterday's" but as the day progressed, her health condition kept fluctuating, they said.
The victim, who was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital on Sunday after she wasbrutally assaulted and raped, continues to be in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
"Her condition is critical and deteriorating. In the morning, she was better but, in the evening, the situation fluctuated and her health deteriorated," Dr B D Athani, Medical Superintendent of the hospital, said.
He told PTI that thevictim now needs "full-time ventilatory support" and she is under "close observation" of the doctors.
Earlier, Athani had said she will be kept under "close observation" by the doctors for the next 48 to 72 hours because of the nature of injuries inflicted on her.
Athani said doctors were reviewing her case periodically and ensuring she gets best of the treatment. "We still cannot call her out of danger because of the nature of injuries," he said.
Doctors said the paramedical student from Dehradun, who was here for her internship, has suffered severe injuries on her head and in the face as he was brutally attacked by the men with an iron rod.
Subramanian SwamySo public rage on the rape has made TDK scamper back.
A Bobbit cut with x carved on his forehead. But only Supreme Court can decide after Session judge refers the matter. Till then detention.
The punishment of death is not curative. Instead we have to punish with "a fate worse than death" for men. What is that?
A shame that is a blot on all of us
There was much outpouring of anger and display of outrage in Parliament on Tuesday over Sunday night’s ghastly gangrape of a young woman in a bus. Her friend, a young man, who valiantly tried to fight back the rapists, was brutally beaten up. After satiating their animal lust, the criminals threw the woman and her friend out of the bus. All this happened not late in night and on one of the busiest roads of south Delhi.
All incidents of sexual assault and rape are reprehensible and equally horrific. In this particular case it was no different. Nor is this the first such incident in Delhi. Law and order in this State is the Union Home Ministry’s responsibility. Blaming the Delhi Government makes little sense although it could be argued that Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s comments on previous such occasions have bordered on the callous.
For a nation that worships Devi and other goddesses, the cruelty we inflict on women is stunning. This is all the more so in Delhi and its neighbouring States. From female foeticide to abandoning baby girls to raping women to ‘honour killings’ to burning brides for dowry, all this and more happens in bustees and poshest of localities.
Sunday’s grim incident has rightly received attention and justifiably unleashed anguish and anger. Sadly, the 24-hour news cycle that is designed to grab eyeballs will ensure it is forgotten in the next few days. The same rage will be witnessed when yet another woman suffers shame or, worse, death.
In the absence of fundamental changes, the reality will not change. And since those fundamental changes require rigour, and unflinching support of society as well as political commitment, they shall continue to elude us.
It’s not for nothing criminals scoff at the law, the law-enforcing agencies and the criminal justice system. The law allows rapists to seize numerous loopholes. Law enforcement agencies, either by design or by default, conduct shoddy investigation. As for the criminal justice system, we have the dubious distinction of viewing bail as a right for criminals.
Trials stretch on for far too long for people to keep track and are perverted to suit political purposes or to pander to the power daddies of criminals. The criminal mistrial that almost allowed the killers of Jessica Lalland Priyadarshini Mattoo come to mind. There are numerous such cases.
The rapist son of a senior police officer in Odisha jumped parole and has since remained ‘untraced’. A killer is routinely granted parole at Ms Dikshit’s intervention to attend ‘family functions’. Out of Tihar he is spotted at Delhi bars, living life king size.
We are clueless as to what happened to the men who raped and then disfigured their victim in Uttar Pradesh. Or the policeman who used the police station where he was posted to live out the most sickening perverse fantasies on a hapless teenaged girl. The trial in the terrible and terrifying Nithari case has fallen off the radar. Nobody follows up on that anymore.
Each society is what people make of it. If ours is deeply flawed, we the people are to blame for it. The filth we spawn through our words and deeds is there for all to see. There is no point in blaming politicians — they are no different from us, or, to put it differently, we are no different from them.
We are equally responsible for Sunday’s crime.
http://www.niticentral.com/2012/12/a-shame-that-is-a-blot-on-all-of-us.htmlAccused robbed a man before picking up victim; 4 held so far
Shalini Narayan : New Delhi, Wed Dec 19 2012, 02:03 hrs
Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested two more persons for the gangrape of a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus on Sunday night, taking the number of arrests in the case to four. Two suspects are absconding. Police have sent teams to Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh to nab them.
The woman’s condition continued to be critical on Tuesday, with a sharp drop in her platelet count indicating the setting-in of severe infection. While she showed slight improvement on Tuesday morning, and wrote notes to communicate, she began to slip by the afternoon. Doctors have increased ventilator support.
Police said all the accused knew each other, had consumed alcohol on the bus, and were out on a “joyride” after running out of liquor when they picked up the couple, later raping and torturing the woman and assaulting her friend. They said the accused had also robbed a carpenter after giving him a lift on the bus shortly before they picked up the couple.
The police have registered a case of attempted murder, gangrape, unnatural sex, kidnapping, wrongful confinement and robbery.
One of the accused, Ram Singh, the bus driver, was produced in court today and sent to five days’ police custody. The other accused who have been arrested include Ram Singh’s brother Mukesh, an assistant gym instructor at the Siri Fort Sports Complex named Vinay Sharma, and a fruitseller, Pawan Gupta. Mukesh was held from Rajasthan, while the other three were arrested from Delhi. The four will be produced in court tomorrow.
Police said they have recovered the victims’ phones, which were stolen on the night of the incident and remained switched off throughout. They have also recovered some of the victims’ clothes. Officials investigating the case said the accused had destroyed some of the victims’ clothes.
All the four who have been arrested, aged between 20-30 years, live in the same slum colony of R K Puram Sector 3 in south Delhi. While Ram Singh was the bus driver, the vehicle was reportedly being driven by Mukesh at the time of the incident.
Those absconding have been identified as Akshay Thakur, a resident of Aurangabad, Bihar, and Raju. Both work as cleaners.
Seeking Ram Singh’s custody, the police said they needed him to help catch “two or three remaining accused”. They will also ask him to identify the clothes he was wearing at the time of the alleged assault. Singh refused to undergo a test identification parade on Tuesday.
The woman was raped and tortured with an iron rod and blades while her 28-year-old engineer friend who works for HCL was beaten and stripped, before both were thrown off the chartered bus on NH-8 near south Delhi on Sunday night.
Just prior to the incident, the accused allegedly robbed a carpenter identified as Ram Aadhar, whom they had offered a lift from the R K Puram Subzi Mandi. They dropped him off at the IIT-Delhi gate at around 8:30 pm after which they reached Munirka and picked up the couple.
After allegedly throwing the couple off the bus, Ram Singh and Vinay Sharma dropped the other accused at R K Puram before taking the bus to the owner’s place in Noida. There, the police said, Singh washed the bus in an attempt to destroy evidence. The next morning, he reportedly returned to R K Puram, while his accomplices went about their daily routine. He then set out for Noida to get the bus for duty. Police said when they tracked the call locations of the accused, their presence in Noida was confirmed.
In the meantime, the Delhi Police had managed to track the owner of the bus, Dinesh Yadav. They checked 370 similar buses before narrowing down their search to Yadav Travels, a Noida-based company which owns close to 49 buses, most of which are supplied to schools.
The victim’s friend apparently gave enough clues to help locate the bus, including that it had yellow curtains, red seats, had Yadav written on the side and was a luxury bus. The police asked Yadav to call Singh. As soon as Singh arrived at R K Puram with the bus, the Delhi Police apprehended him. The rest were identified on Singh’s interrogation.
While the bus had been washed, the police said they were able to pick up enough forensic evidence, such as nail scratchings, DNA and hair.
Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said the driver of the chartered bus, which was primarily a school bus, was using it for commercial purposes illegally. He also said they would seek a fast-track trial in the case, with daily hearings, so that the accused are punished at the earliest.
While the maximum punishment for this crime is life sentence, the commissioner added, the Delhi Police would send a proposal to the government seeking death sentence.
While doctors have done their best to repair the victim’s intestinal injuries, they are concerned about infection. According to Dr B D Athani, Medical Superintendent, Safdarjung Hospital: “In the morning she was drifting in and out of consciousness, and even communicating with us through handwritten notes. By evening however, her blood platelet count dropped and her blood pressure was extremely high.”
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