Nothing has changed in the past decade and crimes against women in Delhi have only gone up, DCW chief Swati Maliwal said on December 16 on the 11th anniversary of the Nirbhaya incident - a brutal gang-rape and assault case that stirred an outpouring of anger and grief, followed by the passage of several new sexual assault laws in the country.
A 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as "Nirbhaya (the fearless one)", was raped and assaulted by six men inside a bus in south Delhi on December 16, 2012, before being thrown out of the moving vehicle. She died from her injuries on December 29 in Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital, where she was flown by air-ambulance.
"A tragic incident happened with Nirbhaya in 2012 when she was gang-raped. That girl died in agony," Ms. Maliwal told PTI.
