Vital changes needed in IPC to help women: cops
3 Jan 2013 7:58 AM IST
Calling the Delhi gangrape 'the worst in the world', police officers are calling for urgent amendments in the archaic Indian Penal Code (IPC) to provide justice to women in distress.
Even police officers who have over the decades seen countless bodies and battered humans are unable to control their emotions as they talk about the savagery committed on 16 December on the victim who finally died on 29 December.
'We have never seen a beastly crime like this,' one officer said. 'Forget the details… I can tell you with authority that there has never been a rape like this anywhere in the world.'
This is a rare case when most police officers surprisingly are in agreement with what protesters are demanding on the streets: death for all six rapists.
'What happened on 16 December was shocking,' another officer added. 'We too are human, we too have daughters, wives and mothers. It is impossible to tell anyone what this woman underwent in the (moving) bus.'
All the accused have been charged with murder since the 23-year-old woman who was brutally raped and tortured succumbed to multiple organ failure in a Singapore hospital after struggling for 13 days to live.
The woman and her male friend boarded the bus in south Delhi's Munirka area on 16 December night. The bus was plying illegally, and within moments the six males began assaulting her. Her friend was badly beaten.
Even police officers who have over the decades seen countless bodies and battered humans are unable to control their emotions as they talk about the savagery committed on 16 December on the victim who finally died on 29 December.
'We have never seen a beastly crime like this,' one officer said. 'Forget the details… I can tell you with authority that there has never been a rape like this anywhere in the world.'
This is a rare case when most police officers surprisingly are in agreement with what protesters are demanding on the streets: death for all six rapists.
'What happened on 16 December was shocking,' another officer added. 'We too are human, we too have daughters, wives and mothers. It is impossible to tell anyone what this woman underwent in the (moving) bus.'
All the accused have been charged with murder since the 23-year-old woman who was brutally raped and tortured succumbed to multiple organ failure in a Singapore hospital after struggling for 13 days to live.
The woman and her male friend boarded the bus in south Delhi's Munirka area on 16 December night. The bus was plying illegally, and within moments the six males began assaulting her. Her friend was badly beaten.
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