Jyoti Singh is a 23-year-old girl who was the victim of a rape case in Delhi on December 16, 2012. She died of multiple organ failure on December 29, 2012. Nirbhaya is the name given to her by the media, which means fearless.
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Nirbhaya was born as Jyoti Singh in 1989 in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh (he died at the age of 23). Her family moved to Delhi after her father got a job at Delhi’s Palam Airport. She received her education from a government school in Delhi and after passing 12th standard, started preparing for PMT (Pre-Medical Test). After failing the PMT exam, Nirbhaya decided to pursue further studies in physiotherapy and enrolled in a physiotherapy college in Dehradun. After completing the course, Nirbhaya returned to Delhi in 2012 and joined an internship program at a physiotherapy hospital in Gurgaon (now Gurgaon).
family
Nirbhaya belongs to a Hindu family from the Bhumihar community. She is the daughter of Badrinath Singh and Asha Devi. She has two brothers.
Nirbhaya’s parents
Nirbhaya’s brother
She was in a relationship with software engineer Awindra Pratap Pandey.
Nirbhaya’s boyfriend
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On the evening of December 16, 2012, Nirbhaya and her boyfriend Awindra Pratap Pandey were returning home after watching the movie “Life of Pi” in Saket, South Delhi. They were looking for an autorickshaw to reach their home in Dwarka around 9:30 pm when they boarded a white off-duty private bus. When the couple entered the car, they found that there were only six male passengers in the car, including the driver. Soon, they became suspicious as the bus was off route and the doors were closed.
Delhi gang rape bus route
When Nirbhaya’s boyfriend objected, the male passengers laughed at the couple and asked them why they were traveling so late. Subsequently, her boyfriend got into an argument with the male rider and was beaten with an iron rod, causing him to fall unconscious. The hitchhikers then dragged Jyoti to the back of the bus and brutally raped her one by one. When she tried to fight back, one of the attackers inserted a rusty stick into her private parts, tearing out her intestines. About an hour later, they threw Jyoti and her boyfriend from the bus running in Mahipalpur. A passer-by found them lying half-alive on the road and informed the Delhi Police. They were rushed to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, where doctors discovered that only 5% of the woman’s intestines were left.
Nirbhaya in hospital
After initial treatment at Safdarjung Hospital, she was taken to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, where she succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012. Her autopsy revealed she suffered severe injuries to her intestines, genitals and abdomen as a result of the attack.
Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore
Protest for justice and court verdict
What happened next shocked the country, sparking widespread protests in the aftermath. Thousands of protesters gathered at India Gate and Raisina Hills in New Delhi.
Nirbhaya rape case protest
Protesters clashed with police and were shot with tear gas and water cannon. The incident was criticized by many countries in South Asia and the Middle East.
Protesters fired with water cannon
On December 29, 2012, the U.S. Embassy issued a statement expressing condolences to Nirbhaya’s family. The then United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said——
Violence against women must never be accepted, never excused, never tolerated. Every girl and woman has the right to be respected, valued and protected. “
A Delhi Police team led by IPS officer Chaya Sharma was appointed to investigate the case.
delhi rape squad
Initially, the team faced various difficulties in tracking the buses as there were over 1,600 white private buses plying Delhi’s roads. However, based on clues that the bus had yellow curtains and red seats, they screened the target bus from 300 buses within 18 hours of the incident.
Delhi bus gang rape case
Subsequently, the task force launched an intense search operation and successfully captured all six suspects within 24 hours of the incident. The accused were identified as bus driver Ram Singh, Ram Singh’s brother Mukesh Singh, assistant fitness coach Vinay Sharma, fruit vendor Pawan Gupta and a man from Uttar Pradesh’s Pakistan A 17-year-old boy from the East.
Delhi rape murderer
During the trial of the accused, Ram Singh committed suicide in judicial custody and the juvenile was sent to a correctional facility.
Delhi rape accused Ram Singh
IPS officer Chaya Sharma revealed in an interview that it was possible to nab the criminal just because of Nirbhaya’s statement. According to Chaya, she has a very positive attitude and she wants the perpetrators to be severely punished for what they did to her. In December 2013, her family established the “Nirbhaya Trust” to provide shelter and legal aid to women who have suffered violence. In the same year, she was posthumously awarded the International Women of Courage Award by the U.S. Department of State.
Nirbhaya Jyoti Trust
On March 13, 2014, the Delhi High Court sentenced four convicted men to death, and the Supreme Court upheld the original verdict.
Delhi rape verdict
On January 7, 2020, the Patiala House Court in Delhi issued a death warrant for hanging of the four accused (Pawan Gupta, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Singh) at 7 am on January 22, 2020. After the incident, the mother of one of the children approached Nirbhaya’s mother and begged for her son’s life. To this, Nirbhaya’s mother replied;
I also have a daughter. How could I forget what happened to her? I have been waiting for justice for seven years…”
After availing all possible judicial remedies, the accused Pawan, Mukesh, Vinay and Akshay were finally hanged in Tihar Jail on the morning of March 20, 2020. According to sources, the criminal did not express any “last wishes”.
In 2015, on the third anniversary of Nirbhaya’s death, her mother revealed her real name (that of Jyoti Singh) to the public at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi (even though Indian law does not allow the name of a rape victim to be used public). disclosed to the public).
Later, Leslee Udwin directed and produced a documentary, India’s Daughter, based on the Nirbhaya story for the BBC Storyville series. However, the film was later banned in India as it was not allowed under Indian law.
In 2019, Netflix launched a web series called “Delhi Crime” that gave the public a look at the case from the other side of the table.
Netflix India original series-Delhi Crime
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Source: HIS Education