Once a safe haven for a lot of travelers around the world, Delhi
has now become the city that all loathes and is afraid of. Termed as the rape
capital of India, rape has become an epidemic that is consuming the place. In
another case a Danish girl was being raped by five in 2014 in the capital and
it soon became a thing of national stigma. In a recent development to the case
a Delhi court on Friday bestowed a sentence of life imprisonment to all five
offenders charged with raping a Danish woman in the capital.
However, Additional Sessions Judge Ramesh Kumar pardoned them of
the requirement of paying reparation to the victim because of their poor
monetary conditions. Instead, he directed the Delhi Legal Services Authority to
consider an appropriate recompense to the victim.
Declining the appeal for a merciful sentence by advice for the blamed,
the judge said that they did not think about mercy to the woman while raping
her. She pleaded with them but to no respite. They did what they were doing in
their full consciousness and did not spare her. So, they are not entitled to
any such leniency.
Hence considering the inhuman conduct of the convicts, namely
Mahender alias Ganja, Mohammed Raja, Raju Bhajje, Arjun and Raju Chhaka were
awarded the sentence of life imprisonment and rigorous work inside the jail premises.
This was the decision of the judge as per the submission by Special Public
Prosecutor Atul Srivastava.
The Delhi Police had charged the faulted persons with raiding and
gang-raping the woman at knife point after dragging her to an abandoned abode
near the Divisional Railway Officers’ Club which is situated about a little
over hundred meters from the New Delhi railway station.
The total numbers of people involved in the case were nine along
with three juveniles who are undergoing proceedings and court hearings at the
Juvenile Justice Court.
These kinds of incidents are a regular in the metro city of Delhi,
which also happens to be our capital city. Making the place a habitable one
where people and especially women are not targeted every now and then is the
job of the authorities and the civil society together.
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