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6 rapes in Delhi every day, men think they can do anything, says DCW chief Swati Maliwal

Delhi Commission for Women’s head met parents of the murdered Rohini teen on Tuesday and said the commission received 2,000 complaints every day on crimes against women.

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New Delhi: Murdered north Delhi teenager’s parents told Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal Tuesday that their daughter could have been saved even if one bystander had raised an alarm when she was attacked.

Maliwal, who met the victim’s family, said they were in a miserable condition and were demanding the accused be given a death sentence within six months.

“We also have the same demand and we will fight for her justice,” she said after meeting the victim’s family at Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy area.

Maliwal said it was necessary to give the perpetrator an exemplary punishment and that the government and courts should work towards this. “It is the reality today that nobody is scared in Delhi – the country’s capital. People think they can do anything with a woman or a girl and the system would not act against them,” the women’s body chief said.

To questions about attempts to politicise and communalise the murder, Maliwal said that the victim’s blood had the same colour as everybody else. She said all women victims – “whether raped at eight months or 90 years” — need help, and urged the Union Home Minister to call an urgent meeting, inviting the Lieutenant Governor, the police commissioner the chief minister and women’s body chiefs.

She said the commission has received 2,000 complaints per day since the death of Anjali – a woman hit and dragged to death by a car on 1 January. “There are six rapes in Delhi every day… Crime has touched an all-time high. This is no time for politics,” Maliwal added.

The 16-year-old was brutally stabbed by television repairman Sahil, 20, on Sunday night, who can be seen clearly on closed-circuit television attacking her. He bludgeons her head with a concrete slab lying on the road even after she has slumped to the ground on the busy thoroughfare. There were many people who witnessed the assault but skirted past, the recording showed.

Sahil, who fled the spot immediately, was picked up from Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr on Monday evening. During interrogation, Sahil was shown the attack video and he admitted he was in it.

Another camera footage, vetted by the Delhi Police, shows Sahil talking to a friend on the same spot right before he killed the girl. The girl was on her way to attending a friend’s son’s birthday party when Sahil attacked her.

On Tuesday, he was sent to two-day police remand by Delhi’s Rohini Court. Delhi cops sought his remand on grounds that the murder weapon had not been recovered yet and that he was changing his version continuously.


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