Supreme Court to hear Damini of Najafgarh case on 2nd March. Candle March held at Jantar Mantar to demand speedy death to culprits
Some social organisations of Uttarakhand in Delhi held a candle March at Jantar Mantar on Monday, demanding death penalty to the gangrape and murder convicts of Damini of Najafgarh in the year 2012. The hearing of the case is due for Tuesday, 2 nd March in the Supreme Court. The parents of Damini were also present in the candle march at Jantar Mantar who said that they have full faith in Supreme Court and demanded not less than capital punishment to the brutal rapists n murderers of Kiran Negi.
It may be recalled that Kiran Negi, primarily from Pauri Garhwal living in Qutab Vihar, Najafgarh Delhi was brutally gangraped and murdered in Haryana after being kidnapped by three human beasts in Najafgarh near Chawla when she was heading towards her house from duty with her two friends. The terrified girls accompanying Kiran Negi had informed the victim’s parents about her kidnapping and the police was informed. But initially the local police showed no interest in the case resulting in the local populace, majority of them Uttarakhandies, holding a protest at the police station compelling the police to register the FIR.
A day after the incessant search for the missing girl, a tragic news arrived about her brutal diabolical murder after obnoxious gangrape. The victim was badly injured with about 21 grievous injuries on her body including inserting of broken bottle pieces in her private parts finally leading to her most tortuous painful death.
The deceased girl was an earning member of the family with her father Kunwar Singh Negi serving as loader drawing a meagre salary. The family’s financial status further deteriorated as her father too lost his job while struggling hard to seek justice for his deceased daughter.
After the Damini of Vasant Vihar’s gangrape n subsequent abominable murder, when the culprits of Kiran Negi were not sentenced with stringent penalty, Anita Negi Gupta, an active NGO activist alongwith Uttarakhand Journalists Forum president Sunil Negi spearheaded the movement for justice for Kiran Negi at Jantar Mantar initially and later on outside Dwarka Court demanding death for the Damini of Najafgarh.
Several other organisations n activists of Uttarakhand in Delhi too joined this movement in large numbers, thereafter with women n girls participation being tremendous.
After several days of hearing in Dwarka session court all the three culprits were awarded capital punishment, later on upheld by the high court of Delhi as well. Presently the cases is in Supreme court and the hearing is due for today.
What is shocking and surprising about this case is that while in Vasant Vihar Damini case of 2013, all the convicts have been hanged but in Kiran Negi’s case even which occured a year before in 2012, after nine years of protracted delay, the culprits have not been given capital punishment till date despite all of them being awarded death sentence by the lower courts.
The parents of late Kiran Negi, hail from a poor family with their financial position too being in immense jeopardy especially after this huge tragedy. The anguished husband, wife having grown old and in pitiable financial condition are running from pillar to posts for the last nine years to seek due justice but all in vain.
