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The 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder, commonly known as the Nirbhaya case, involved a rape and fatal assault that occurred on 16 December 2012 in Munirka, a neighbourhood in South Delhi. The incident took place when Jyoti Singh, a 22-year-old physiotherapy intern, was beaten , gang-raped , and tortured in a private bus in which she was ...
Nirbhaya Fund was a ₹1000 crore corpus announced by Government of India in its 2013 Union Budget, in the aftermath of the 2012 Delhi gang rape. The Finance Minister P. Chidambaram announced the fund to support initiatives protecting the dignity and ensuring safety of women in India.
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.
Kavita Krishnan is a women's rights activist who has publicised the problem of violence against women following the 2012 Delhi gang rape of Nirbhaya. [2]Krishnan was also a politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation and had been a member of its Central Committee for over two decades.
A hartal was observed in northern Sri Lanka on 20/21 May 2015 as a protest against the murder. [29] [30] Shops, businesses, private transport and even government offices were shut across the Northern Province. [31] On 23 May 2015, Jaffna Magistrate’s Court banned protests within the city limits of Jaffna. [32] [33] [34]
Shoba was born in 1982 and hailed from Delft Island. [10] [11] She was educated at the Memorial School and Vembadi Girls' High School.[10] [11] Her family moved to the Vanni in 1995 after being displaced from their home by Operation Riviresa - the Sri Lankan military's operation aimed at recapturing the Jaffna Peninsula. [11]
Sri Lanka has been struggling with an economic crisis since declaring bankruptcy two years ago with more than $83 billion in debt. More than half of that debt is owed to foreign creditors, ...
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.