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The comic book Priya's Shakti was inspired by the Nirbhaya case. [280] [281] The protagonist fights against gender-based sexual violence in India and around the world. [282] [283] A book on the Nirbhaya case titled Courting Injustice: The Nirbhaya Case and its Aftermath was authored by Rajesh Talwar, and published by Hay House in 2013 [284]
The victim, Jyoti Singh, watched the film Life of Pi with a male friend, Awindra Pratap Pandey, [11] after which they boarded a privately run bus to return home. [12] She was assaulted and gang raped on the bus; her friend was also physically assaulted during the incident. Both of them were subsequently thrown from the bus.
The documentary was made on the aftermath of the sexual assault of Nirbhaya that happened on the intervening night of 16 December 2012 in a moving bus in New Delhi. The 23-year-old physiotherapy student was returning home after watching the 'Life of Pi' movie with her male friend. Six men including a juvenile brutally gang-raped her.
The victim of the rape was a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist whose real name was Jyoti Singh, but she came to be known as Nirbhaya, meaning "fearless". However, during a press meet at the Press Club Kolkata, director Milan Bhowmik said that the film is not based on the Delhi rape case, but actually on the present scenario of our society.
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 (popularly known as Nirbhaya Act) is an Indian legislation passed by the Lok Sabha on 19 March 2013, and by the Rajya Sabha on 21 March 2013, which provides for amendment of Indian Penal Code, Indian Evidence Act, and Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 on laws related to sexual offences.
Similar to the photojournalist case, the men tied and beat up the victim's male companion, before gang raping her. [19] The two victims fled to Chhattisgarh following the incident, without reporting it, out of fear. [18] Mumbai Police made the telephone operator undergo a "two-finger test", a check for a hymen as proof of sexual activity. [20]
He also defended the accused in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] The Delhi gang rape case shot him into the international media limelight [ 1 ] He was, at the time, the only lawyer prepared to defend the rape accused in the face of a boycott call by various advocate associations.
Delhi Crime is an Indian police procedural crime drama television series written and directed by Richie Mehta. [2] [3] With creative manager Chirag Shah and produced by Golden Karaven, Ivanhoe Productions, Film Karavan and Poor Man's Productions, the series stars Shefali Shah, Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain and Rajesh Tailang.