“A law is of no use if it fails to deliver justice.” Seven years after her daughter was gang-raped and fatally assaulted in the heart of Delhi, Nirbhaya’s mother questions India’s law enforcement and criminal justice systems.
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00:00I am Asha Devi Nirbhaya's mother. I am a Suri. I am a Suri because we have been fighting for 7 years, but we could not do anything for the people, nor could we change anything.
00:17Two or three days ago, a girl from Haridarabad took a small poster and said that she was not safe in her country.
00:31She was sitting somewhere around Sansad Bhawan.
00:40The police were so ungrateful that they took her, tortured her and slapped her.
00:47Especially the ladies police slapped her.
00:50This is very shameful.
00:53The police that we believe will protect us, will help us, will help us.
01:01Today, that police was so ungrateful to one girl that they arrested her.
01:09The most disgusting thing was that they slapped her, tortured her and made her write that she will not participate in the protest.
01:16I want to say that you write that she will never be wrong anywhere.
01:22Who will be responsible for this?
01:24The way you made her write in the police station, she will not raise her voice in the future, she will not protest.
01:32You write and publish it in the society.
01:37We are ready to protect women.
01:40We guarantee that if a woman is hurt, we will be ready to protect her.
01:46If a woman comes to us, we will not misbehave with her.
01:51We want answers from everyone.
01:53You are for the people.
01:55You have gone from the people to the people.
01:58You do this especially to the girls.
02:00This is very wrong.
02:02This should not happen to that girl.
02:07Our girls are scared of this incident.
02:10I am 55 years old, but I am also scared.
02:14I stay up all night.
02:16I ask, the auto driver says that we will not go there.
02:20We will not get a ride from there.
02:24So how can we live in this society?
02:28There is everything, there is the government, there is the police, there is the law, but still our girls are not safe.
02:35This is a very wrong thing.
02:40This is a terrible thing.
02:44For this, all of us, the police, the government, all of us have to come together.
02:49Especially our society.
02:52Even today, our girls are blamed.
02:55In 2012, Nirbhaya was questioned about what she had gone to do.
03:00Was the film made only for boys, not for girls?
03:05Sometimes they ask, why did you go alone?
03:08She was with her friend.
03:12That's when it happened.
03:14That girl, a woman from Hyderabad, was coming from the office at 9 o'clock.
03:21She was also questioned about why she did not call the police.
03:26Can we believe that we are stuck somewhere?
03:31Our car broke down.
03:32If we call the police, will the police take us safely?
03:36If this is the case, then the police should come down to the society to maintain this faith.
03:42Make the society believe that we are for you.
03:47But this is not happening.
03:49The world has been fighting for a week now.
03:51The whole society is fighting.
03:53But no big leader, no big minister from the society has given any assurance that we are for the girls.
04:04We will do something.
04:06We will do it now.
04:07Whenever there is an incident, a first-take court is made.
04:10A strict law is made.
04:12But what is the use of that?
04:14When the case goes on in that first-take court for 7 years,
04:19that law does not mean that we cannot get the girls punished.
04:26So what can I say?
04:28I still don't understand what to say to you.
04:33But I would like to say this.
04:36Especially to our young boys and girls,
04:39that you should be self-reliant for your safety.
04:44Especially to our young boys and girls,
04:47that this responsibility is yours.
04:50We are not for the women.
04:52We accept that today it did not happen to you.
04:55It happened to someone else.
04:57But you should understand that tomorrow it could be your turn.
05:01It could be your mother's turn.
05:02It could be your daughter's turn.
05:04Therefore, it is the responsibility of both men and women to fight this problem.
05:13We should do something for the future of our children.
05:17We should stand together and raise our voice against this crime.
05:21We should make a request to the government.
05:26We should use our rights.
05:30We should raise our voice against this crime.
05:33And we should fight.
05:34One more lie.