New Delhi: Delhi Police will invoke murder charges against the six men allegedly involved in the gangrape and brutal assault of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus after she died in a Singapore hospital 13 days after treatment.
A senior police official said as soon as they get the official report from the hospital, they will slap murder charges against the accused who were nabbed after the December 16 incident. Police had initially booked the six men under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 201 (destruction of evidence), 365 (kidnapping or abducting), 376 (2)(g) (gang rape), 377 (unnatural offences), 394 (hurting in committing robbery) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
Condoling the death of the gang-rape victim, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Saturday pledged to strengthen laws to ensure that such incidents are not repeated.
He also said that the real tribute to the 23-year-old victim will be to ensure maximum punishment to the culprits. In a message to the family, he said, “A real tribute to her will be to ensure maximum punishment to the culprits. “I pledge to work to strengthen the laws and ensure that such an incident never gets repeated again,” he said. The girl, who was gang-raped and brutally assaulted by six men in a moving bus in south Delhi, died in a Singapore hospital early this morning after battling for life for the past 13 days.
“We tried our best to provide the best health care. Government is committed to seek deterrent punishment to the accused,” Shinde said. “Government is also committed to make necessary changes in law to make it more stringent so that such incidents do not occur in future,” he said.
Home R P N Singh assured the family of the girl that the Government would work towards ensuring “harshest possible” punishment for her killers in the “quickest possible time”. “Government will work overtime to try and bring about laws and steps that ensure that no other citizen of the country has to go undergo the same kind of trauma,” he told reporters here.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and BJP chief Nitin Gadkari also condoled the “tragic” death of the girl. (Agencies)
