Retrieved December 30, The Hindu New Delhi. International Business Times UK. January 1, Archived from the original on January 4, Retrieved January 1, Archived from the original on January 1, They beat Awindra and threw the couple out, half-naked, into the night.
The police found them by the side of the road at about 11pm. It was clear that Jyoti had suffered catastrophic injuries. We know all this because Jyoti did not die there at the roadside. She clung on, because she was determined to tell the police enough to catch the men who had violated her. It is five years later. A bus pulls up to the Munirka stop where Jyoti and Awindra waited that night. The doors open, 10 rupees change hands and the bus noses back into the traffic.
The darkness outside is full of the smoke from wood fires that hangs in the cold air. There are neon signs and the lights of cars and lorries and the cacophony of horns. These are the last sights and sounds Jyoti would have heard before the men closed in on her. Tonight, the bus is almost empty, just as it was when the doors shut behind Jyoti and Awindra.
They tore my clothes and raped me in turns. They hit me with an iron rod and bit me on my entire body with their teeth. Six people raped me in turns for nearly one hour in a moving bus. The driver of the bus kept changing so that he could also rape me.
Tonight, the handful of people who have got on the bus have now departed. The driver turns off most of the lights. Alone, in the semi-darkness, there is that sense of vulnerability familiar to any young women brave enough to travel at night in a city where, even five years after the promises that lessons would be learned, many feel that beneath the surface, little has changed. But on the surface, in the bright light of day, life for young Indian women growing up in looks very different to the way it was for their mothers and a world away from that of their grandmothers.
They wear jeans and T-shirts, hang out in coffee shops, obsess over their mobile phones and mingle with boys just like their western counterparts do and in a way that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Taxi drivers get lessons in why they cannot leer at their passengers. There is a lively feminist movement, hotly debating issues such as the continuing stigma attached to menstruation — by women as well as men. Yet it is an uphill battle: many men brought up seeing their mothers doing all the household chores expect the same of their wives.
Daughters, especially those in poorer families, are widely expected to perform the household chores while the boys are not. It is worse in the rural areas, where traditional attitudes prevail and there are still widely held beliefs that girls who go out to bars and drink with boys are not decent Indian girls but westernised and sexually permissive. The men who fell upon her had no respect for her as a person: to them, she was simply an object to do with as they wanted.
We were all the time in total darkness…. My friend tried to save me but these people beat him every time he came forward to save me. They also beat him with an iron rod and hit him in the head. They threw us out of the moving bus. We were both naked on the side of the road and many passersby actually saw us and informed the police control room.
Outside the hospital, the city was ablaze with anger. The initial reports of the rape and the sheer savagery had brought women out on to the streets. The police responded by beating them. The anger grew and spread. Eventually, on 26 December, the then prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and his cabinet took the extraordinary decision to fly Jyoti to a transplant specialist hospital in Singapore.
Cynics suggested the real reason was that no one wanted her to die in an Indian hospital that would become the focal point for more violent protests. Her family went with her to Singapore, but her strength was gone. On the evening of 28 December, the doctors told them there was nothing more to be done. They sat with her as her heartbeat faded.
They lived in a small house down a blind alley in the Mahavir Enclave II area in the south-west of the city, a poor area of slum dwellings. They had sold their little plot of farmland in their home state of Uttar Pradesh to pay for their three children — Jyoti and her younger brothers Gaurav and Saurabh — to study and make something of themselves.
Asha was 46, Badrinath He was working double shifts as a baggage handler at the airport to pay the bills. The day of the attack, 16 December , was a Sunday. Jyoti had made tea for the family and gone off to meet Awindra. When she failed to return, the family started calling her phone but each time it was switched off.
At Badrinath went to the hospital and called the others to join him at 2am. Many people in India believed there would be a sudden change in attitude following the devastating death of Jyoti but 12 months on, Awindra is convinced there is still a long way to go.
If one is murdered that is acceptable but a rape survivor is not accepted. THIS was a case that caused shock and outrage all over the world. The barbarity of the attack highlighted a rape crisis in India that had been simmering for some years. Elsewhere, women demonstrate in Bangalore and thousands march silently in Kolkata. Activist Rajesh Gangwar starts a hunger strike in protest.
Jump directly to the content. Sign in. All Football. They were then thrown off the bus, apparently left for dead. How could the same law be applied differently to two similar cases is a question only legal experts and courts can answer. Just a day after the Bengaluru molestation incident, another video has surfaced showing what life as a woman in India is like. If you think the shameful, inhuman behaviour caught on a CCTV camera in Delhi is an aberration, stand in front of a mirror and introspect.
But in the process of the discussion of the Chennai case, it has somehow become easy to blame women for the crimes committed against them. Your death, like that of Jyoti Singh Pandey before you, has become a defining moment in the struggle for equality, ending caste-based discrimination. The new Juvenile Justice Bill recognises juveniles between the ages of years and permits them to be tried as adults for heinous offences.
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