We Have To Take A Pledge That Such An Incident Does Not Happen Again: Arvind Kejriwal

Mumbai: It took seven years to deliver justice to Nirbhaya gangrape case it is because of the loopholes in the police and the judicial system of the country said Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

Speaking to ANI, Kejriwal said, “It took seven years to get justice. Today, we have to take a pledge that such an incident does not happen again. We have seen how the culprits manipulated the law. There are a lot of loopholes in our system that encourage the wrongdoers, we need to improve the system.”

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“The police system and the judicial system needs to be fixed. The culprits should be hanged within six months. We need to take all steps so that women feel safe. We have to install CCTV cameras across Delhi. Street lights need to be installed at the dark spots,” said Kejriwal.

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Four convicts of the Nirbhaya incident were hanged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail at 5:30 am on Friday.

The three-judge Supreme Court bench rejected the final plea after late convictions by AP Singh, the lawyer for the convicts, stayed his execution.

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The four convicts, along with two others including Ram Singh and a juvenile, had raped and brutally tortured a 23-year-old paramedic student on a moving bus in south Delhi on the night of December 16, 2012. The victim died a few days later after battling for life at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital and later at a Singapore hospital.

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