Delhi gang-rape victim's family await justice two years on
December 15, 2014  18:04
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"They say he (Narendra Modi) is fearless. Will he help us get justice?" asks the father of the December 16 gang-rape victim as he fights back tears while remembering his daughter whose brutal rape and murder two years ago shook the nation's conscience.

Referring to the recent incident where an executive was raped by a Uber cab driver, the father said, "Nothing in India has changed since December 16, 2012. All promises and statements made by our leaders and ministers have turned out to be shallow. Our suffering gives them their moment in limelight."

"My daughter asks me what I have done to get her justice. She asks what am I doing so that many more like her get justice and I wake up to realise how helpless and trivial I am," the father said, adding that he has not slept peacefully even once since that fateful night.

The four adult accused Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh were tried by a fast-track court which awarded them death penalty on September 13, 2013.

The Delhi High Court upheld the death penalty in March this year. Now the family is waiting for Supreme Court hearing on the convicts' appeal. 
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