Delhi govt may soon set up fast track courts for rape victims

New Delhi: In the wake of the rape incident involving a 23-year-old girl, Delhi government today indicated that it might set up fast track courts to ensure speedy justice to victims of such crimes. The Delhi Cabinet is expected to take up a proposal in this regard very soon, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s Parliamentary Secretary Mukesh Sharma said. [caption id=“attachment_560999” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] PTI[/caption] He said Dikshit called Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar more than once to seek details about the probe and asked him to take immediate steps to arrest the perpetrators. The Chief Minister also wanted Kumar to make visible steps that would make women in the capital feel safer after this “horrific” incident, Sharma said. She also told the Police Commissioner that stringent measures should be taken to ensure the safety of women in the capital. Meanwhile, Delhi Minister Kiran Walia visited the rape victim at Safdarjung Hospital and asked doctors to take all possible treatment for the victim. Walia visited the hospital on the instructions of Dikshit, Sharma said. A 23-year-old para-medical student was in a “critical condition” today after she was allegedly raped and brutally assaulted by four men who also attacked her male friend and threw both of them out of the vehicle, in yet another shocking crime against women in the capital. Both the girl and her male friend, who had boarded the chartered bus with tinted glass windows from Munirka in south Delhi around 9.45 PM to Palam, were assaulted with an iron rod by the men after the two resisted before they were dumped on the road side near Mahipalpur flyover, police said.   PTI