Courting injustice: the Nirbhaya case and its aftermath

In the Northays as to the gap between theory and law has been highlighted Pollowing the terrible episode, (and even before) there has been continual and great, improvement in the substantive laws for both women as well as children who have been victims of sexual violence. And yet despite there being so much pubility on the case, the author argues that, concretely, although there has been improvement in the laws themselves, we are nowhere near better enforcement or implementation. Even after the institution of a fast track trial, and with the nation's attention focused on it, the Nirbhaya case still dragged on and it took nearly nine months for the trial court to reach a verdict. As the author goes on to show in this well-argued book, a woman who is the victim of a sex-related crime 'courts injustice' whenever she comes to a court, be she the victim of a rape, an acid attack, of sexual harassment the mother or father of such a victim or ...be it even any ordinary person struggling to find justice.