While the road from the direction of Munirka is brightly lit, parts of the opposite side that leads towards Dhaula Kuan, do not have street lights. Express
A nondescript spot on NH-8 near the Mahipalpur flyover is where the 23-year-old who was gangraped and assaulted was dumped along with her friend 10 years ago.
The stretch of road close to the spot remains poorly lit at night, illuminated mostly by headlights of oncoming traffic and lights on the Mahipalpur flyover. But, not far from the spot, police presence is strong.
In 2012, the woman and her friend had boarded a private bus from Munirka and she was gangraped in the vehicle. According to accounts reproduced in a Supreme Court judgment from 2017, they were thrown out of the bus opposite one of the hotels near the flyover.
25% rise in rape cases in Delhi between 2020, 2021
Ten years after the December 2012 gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old woman, Delhi has become the most “unsafe” metropolitan city in India – over 39 cases of ‘crimes against women’ were recorded in the city every day in 2021, as per data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released earlier this year.
NCRB data also showed that women aged between 18 and 30 are the most vulnerable in Delhi – in more than 1,250 cases of rape registered last year, over 900 women were in this age group. Rape cases also saw a 25% increase in 2021 as compared to 2020 which saw 1,000 cases.
The MCD school teacher who assaulted a student and pushed her off the building’s first floor on Friday has been sent to judicial remand till December 20, the Delhi police said on Saturday. Direction has been given to the jail authority for getting the accused, Geeta Rani Deshwal, evaluated by a psychiatrist in jail as well as at the Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences (IHBAS), the police added.
Aaftab Poonawala, accused of killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, told a Delhi court that even though he engaged a new lawyer for his case, he was unaware that a bail application was filed on his behalf, following which the court deferred the matter to December 22. Earlier in the morning, Additional Sessions Judge Vrinda Kumari at Saket district court told Poonawala’s lawyer that his client, through an email, denied that he had moved a bail application through his lawyer and stated that the application was moved erroneously.
A 30-year-old man allegedly threw his two-year-old child off a first-floor terrace, before jumping, in Southeast Delhi’s Kalkaji on Friday. Both have been hospitalised, said police, adding that they fell from a height of 21 feet. The accused’s wife claimed he was intoxicated at the time of the incident.
While changes in wind patterns may have contributed to poorer air quality in Mumbai last week, changes in patterns over North India may also have contributed to better air quality in Delhi so far this month, according to scientists associated with forecasting systems. The air quality in Delhi for the first two weeks of December this year has been comparatively better for the first half of the month since at least 2016. The average AQI from December 1-16 this year was 295, according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board.
