DELHI GANG-RAPE CASE DECEMBER 2012, DELHI GANG-RAPE VICTIM GIRL, DELHI GANG-RAPE CASE, NEW DELHI GANGRAPE CASE

DAY 1 - 16 December 2012

On the night of 16 December 2012, a Physiotherapy Student (Girl) was Gang-Raped in Delhi. The woman is being informally referred as Damini (Virtual/ Imaginary/ Not Real- Name), Nirbhaya and Amanat by the Indian public and media. The victim, with a male companion, boarded a Local Bus (of Yadav Travels, Noida= Owner Company) in South Delhi around 9:30 pm after watching a film. They were assaulted by a group of six males already on board the bus, who then raped the woman. The young woman is being treated at Safdarjang Hospital New Delhi, where she was on ventilatory support for five days. The incident has generated widespread public protests and international coverage. It has been condemned by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, who called on the Government of India and the Government of Delhi “to do everything in their power to take up radical reforms, ensure justice and reach out with robust public services to make women’s lives more safe and secure”. On Delhi Chief 

Minister Sheila Dikshit’s suggestion, five fast track courts were approved to try the rape cases. In an interview Dikshit has said she “hates Delhi being called ‘Rape Capital’ but it has indeed become one”. The Parliament’s Standing Committee on Home Affairs will meet on 27 December 2012 to discuss the issue, with summons for Union Home Secretary R. K. Singh and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. On 21 December 2012, the Government promised to file the charge sheet “quickly” and seek the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for the perpetrators.

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Delhi Gang-Rape Case: Girl Critical, Flown to Singapore:

Dec 27, 2012, 12.11 AM IST: NEW DELHI : A last-ditch battle has been mounted to save Nirbhaya. Late on Wednesday night, the rape victim was flown in a special air ambulance to Singapore where she will be taken to the Mount Elizabeth hospital, a top-notch critical care medical centre. "Her health is precarious, that's the main issue before the government," said a Union minister, not wanting to be identified.

Doctors at Safdarjung Hospital where Nirbhaya was being treated for the last one week were hesitant to hold out hope. "Still, the fight to save her is just as strong," said a doctor.

Safdarjung Hospital sources said Singapore's Mount Elizabeth is equipped to deal with trauma and serious medical complications. It is also capable of carrying out multiple organ transplants.

Niirbhaya is being accompanied by Dr P.K.Verma, Incharge of Safdarjung Hospital's ICU, who is leading a team of doctors, many of them from Medanta. Her father and mother are also accompanying her.

Three air ambulances have been pressed into service - two of Safdarjung Hospital's and one of Medanta's. The decision to take Nirbhaya to Singapore is understood to have been taken at the highest level.

The Union cabinet discussed her worsening health condition on Wednesday morning and considered options for her medical care abroad. Government is also concerned about fresh protests if the worst can't be averted, and is therefore keen to be seen to be doing its very best to save Nirbhaya. ---- The flight to Singapore will be 6-hours long. Nirbhaya's condition worsened last night when she suffered a cardiac arrest and was revived after administration of CPR (cardiac pulmonary resuscitation). Through Wednesday, doctors at Safdarjung hospital struggled to fight the infection seeping through her body.

Sources said the government has been considering the possibility of an intestine transplant but Nirbhaya can undergo this only after the Sepsis Threatening to overwhelm her weakened immune system recedes. Moving Nirbhaya abroad will also mean that Safdarjung hospital is no longer a focus of protestors and media attention. As word of Nirbhaya's impending transfer spread, the crowd outside the hospital began to swell as protestors began to arrive along with BJP state chief Vidender Gupta. The victim was shifted from Safdarjung hospital in a Medanta ambulance, from the Gurgaon-based multi-speciality hospital run by heart surgeon Naresh Trehan. A team from Medanta also examined Nirbhaya on Wednesday. Speculation mounted earlier in the evening as for the first time in several days, there was no official word on Nirbhaya's medical condition. Doctors did not issue a health bulletin and media persons were awaiting official word on her condition. Nirbhaya's family members were also unavailable for information. Nirbhaya's health concerns loomed in the backdrop of plans for a protest march by women's groups on Thursday that had police on tenterhooks. Another round of protests could precipitate a fresh confrontation with the government. Finance Minister P.Chidambaram, who briefed the media after the Cabinet meeting, identified the problem as a "new phenomenon" of "flash mobs" resorting to protests and the government not being fully prepared to deal with such situations. The minister's bid to express his sense of shame and to pray for Nirbhaya's well-being could have been an attempt to undo some of the damage done by Home Minister Sushil Shinde's clumsy articulation.

The police particularly has Aam Aadmi Party in mind as it feels the group has a core of a few hundred committed supporters who could be willing to precipitate a confrontation. The dissonance between the home ministry, Delhi government and the police is also worrying Congress leaders. The absence of a strong political initiative to ensure a united front and deliver a deterrent message to miscreants, and despondency over Shinde's wooden response and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's limited intervention is worrying Congress leaders. The spontaneous and largely non-political nature of the protests led by students and young people and the possibility of trouble makers using the unsettled situation to indulge in violence and rioting is a key worry. A crisis can see the government come under all around political fire as the opposition has accused the Centre of not doing enough to respond to the demands raised by the protestors and women's groups. The bitterness in the exchanges between Congress and BJP spokespersons does not offer much hope of a bi-partisan approach. BJP has rejected the PM's appeal for calm, saying the assurance was inadequate as he had not responded to the demand for a special session of Parliament to pass tougher anti-rape laws that will include death penalty.

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No Logic In Shifting Gang-rape Survivor : say Delhi Doctors :

Published: Friday, Dec 28, 2012, 16:05 IST; Place: New Delhi, Agency: IANS

 

As the 23-year-old gang-rape survivor struggles for life in Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital, doctors in the national capital said moving her abroad in such a condition was "unusual". There was "no logic" behind it, they said. "I can't understand the logic behind it, or rather it is unusual to transfer the girl from Delhi to Singapore when the patient has suffered a cardiac arrest, as I have been informed by the media," Samiran Nundy, chairman, department of surgical gastroenterology and organ transplantation, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, told IANS.

 

The 23-year-old survivor was brutally beaten and raped by six men on a moving bus in Delhi Dec 16. She now fights for life with severe multiple intestinal, abdominal and other injuries.

 

She was flown to Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital late Wednesday night. "My suggestion would have been to stabilise her in India and get her out of the crisis; then do her intestinal transplant later. One cannot think about intestinal transplant at this moment. First, the infection spreading in her should be stopped, then one can think about transplant," Nundy said. Another senior doctor from the trauma centre of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, requesting anonymity, said: "Maybe it was politically logical to shift the patient. But as a doctor, I would say it is totally insensitive to shift the patient with her infection spreading. Shifting now, that too within a few hours of cardiac arrest, is thoughtless." Mount Elizabeth Hospital, where the woman is being treated, on Thursday confirmed that she had a cardiac arrest in the early hours of Wednesday. Nundy also said that in case of intestinal transplant, chances of survival are five years in 60 percent of cases, and one year in 80 percent. Meanwhile, doctors treating the woman at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore have said she had suffered "significant brain injury" and continued to be in an "extremely critical condition".

 

Besides a prior cardiac arrest, the woman also had infection in her lungs and abdomen, "as well as significant brain injury", Kelvin Loh, the hospital's chief executive officer, was quoted as saying by the Straits Times. "The patient is currently struggling against odds, and fighting for her life," he said. He said a multi-disciplinary team of specialists has been working round-the-clock to treat her since her arrival Thursday. They were "doing everything possible to stabilise her condition over the next few days", he added.

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Jaya Bachchan weeps for Delhi gang-rape victim : (Source: DNA)

Published: Saturday, Dec 29, 2012, 22:02 IST | Updated: Saturday, Dec 29, 2012, 22:07 IST Place: Mumbai | Agency: IANS

 

Former actress and Rajya Sabha member Jaya Bachchan broke down Saturday during a silent march held for the Delhi gang-rape victim here this evening. The 23-year-old victim died in a Singapore hospital early Saturday. Jaya Bachchan expressed her condolences to the victim's family and said that she understood their pain. “There are many girls in my family. I feel scared when I think of what the 23-year-old had to go through. Whatever we did was very late. We should collectively apologise to the family and to all women who have gone through such an ordeal. Please don't tarnish the reputation of our country,” she said. In memory of the victim, Mumbaikers joined a silent march from Juhu beach to Kaifi Azmi park. The protest was led by the late poet's daughter, former actress and social activist Shabana Azmi. "The brave girl has lost her life but has awakened the country," Azmi said. Various Bollywood celebrities took to the streets to show their support to the deceased victim and her family. Celebrities like Ranveer Singh, Alka Yagnik, Lalit Pandit, Jaya Bachchan, Javed Akhtar, Hema Malini, Om Puri, Deepika Padukone, Kunal Kapoor and Sonu Nigam were among those present. Singer Sonu Nigam, who has stayed in the capital, said: "I have stayed in Delhi. The boys are hungry there and they look at women as if they are restaurants," he said. Actress Hema Malini said: “The incident should not have taken place. India is known for its culture and tradition but these kinds of incidents are scary. The sad thing is the government didn't do anything. Everybody is scared to step out their house, there is no security.”