It seems like a day as any other in India. Not so for the judge who is responsible for the repeated gang-rape case trial which is taking place this afternoon in the Mumbai High Court. Nervously, she is pacing back and forth in her office just before she is to announce the sentence for the three offenders. “Their defence lawyers tried to play the they-are-still-so-young-card”, she explained. “But I don’t sees why to such gruesome and diabolical rapes one should show any mercy.”
Tucking her documents under one arm and carrying her bag, the judge made her way back to the courtroom through the hallway. Muffled shouts can be distinguished from outside, where protesters are insisting on women’s safety in India.
The new law on rape penalty was intensified in 2013, which included a death penalty for repeat offenders. Vijay Mohan Jadev, 19, Mohammed Kasim Hafeez Sheikh, 21, and Mohammed Salim Ansari, 28 were found guilty for gang raping, first a 19.year old phone receptionist last summer and a second time a 22-year-old photojournalist. The very second after the judge passed the sentence, chaos erupted in the courtroom, a mother started to swear hysterically and so was brought outside and the men accepted their fate as they wrier escorted away.
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