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Delhi gangrape case: Usha Mehra Commission submits report to Home Ministry

New Delhi, Sat, 23 Feb 2013 NI Wire
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The Justice Usha Mehra Commission, set up to review responses to the December 16 Delhi gang-rape case Friday submitted its report the Home Ministry. The commission also made some suggestions.

In its recommendation, Justice Mehra panel said, 'there should be coordination between the Directorate of Transport and the police because unless they coordinate with each other it is not possible for any vehicle to be on the road.'

"And secondly, without verification of the antecedents of the owner of this bus the inter-state carriage permit was granted by the Delhi transport department. Now, we have come to know that the owner was a resident of Noida, but under the rules if a person is not a resident of Delhi then inter-state carriage transport permit cannot be given," said Justice Mehra.

"We have said that once a victim makes a statement under 164 CrPC to a magistrate then it should be treated as her examination chief, and to that extent the provision of Section 231 of the CrPC should be amended and this may be incorporated as it is done in the civil procedure code where the affidavit is treated as a examination chief," she added.

The committee suggested that counsellor, a qualified nurse to collect evidence, a woman police inspector and a forensic expert should be present under a single roof where rape victims can be taken.

Speaking to NDTV, she said that the bus had tinted glasses, curtains and no light and could have been stopped by policemen.

"The bus could have been stopped by policemen and the crime could have been averted. The area had no police patrol or men on foot manning the street," she said.

She said the need of the time is to sensitise policemen so that they could handle such crimes sensitively.

Justice Mehra Commission had been set up under Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 to enquire into various aspects of the shocking incident of rape and brutal assault of a 23 year-old student in Delhi and to identify the lapses, if any, on the part of the police or any other authority or person that contributed to the occurrence.

The Commission was also asked to suggest measures to improve the safety and security of women, particularly in Delhi and the national capital region.

The victim, a physiotherapy student, was brutally raped and assaulted in a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012. She died of her injuries on December 29, 2012 in the multi-specialty Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.

Her male friend, who was accompanying her that day, was also assaulted by the accused and both of them were thrown out of the bus.

The six males, including a minor, were arrested soon after the crime.

--With Agencies Inputs--

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