Justice finally done but fight to ensure speedy justice will continue: Nirbhaya's family

Justice has finally been done and women will definitely feel safer now, Nirbhaya's parents said after four men convicted of gang rape and murder of their daughter were executed on Friday, resolving that their next fight would be to plug the loopholes that delay punishment.

Talking to reporters at her home in Dwarka in west Delhi, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi said justice was delayed but not denied in the 2012 case. Her father Badrinath Singh said although his daughter has got justice, the family will now fight for daughters of the country and work to plug the loopholes in the rape laws.

"We will request the Supreme Court to issue guidelines so that no one can adopt delaying tactics in such cases in future," the mother said, referring to the execution of death warrants being deferred thrice by a court on various grounds.

"Justice has been delivered finally, but after much delay. Our fight to ensure timely justice to other such women victims will continue, and hope the system will ensure fast-tracked courts for speedy justice," she said.

She said women will definitely feel safer after this execution and it will also make parents teach boys to behave with women. "After a long agonising wait, my daughter has got justice," she said.

"After the Supreme Court hearing last night, I came home and hugged a portrait of my daughter and told her - 'beti nyay dila diya tumko'," Asha Devi said, adding, "March 20 should be celebrated as Nirbhaya Nyay Diwas (day of justice). This day will be written in history books."