Public anger was directed at law enforcers. The show also reenacts the protests that occurred outside the police station following the crime. It's by no means a pleasant watch, but it's a powerful and significant one. While they don't show the crime itself, seeing the bloody sheets the victim is wrapped in and hearing the young woman weakly recall what happened makes for a tragic, upsetting experience. 'Delhi Crime' is an intense and immersive watch. She takes it personally, describing the crime as "insanity" and "demonic", and unlike anything she has ever dealt with before. She is committed to solving the case and fiercely determined that those who committed the crime are caught and justice served. Primarily, it follows the DCP south district Vartika Chaturvedi (Shefali Shah) who takes charge of the organisation of the investigation.
The seven-part series follows a number of members of the Delhi police force such as a juvenile officer, a trainee determined to prove her worth, and numerous inspectors. It was a horrific, atrocious and disturbing case and 'Delhi Crime' provides a powerful recounting of the story that shook local and international media. She died eleven days after the assault due to fatal injuries she sustained. The 2012 case reverberated throughout India and the wider world.Īlso known as the Delhi gang-rape case, the crime, in which a 23-year-old female intern was gang-raped, beaten and tortured at the back of a bus by six men (who also beat the male friend travelling with her), occurred seven years ago.
In 2020, Delhi registered 23 environment-related offences (16 under Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 6 under the Wildlife Protection Act), up from 14 in 2019.'Delhi Crime', based on the infamous Nirbhaya case in India, is a dramatised version of the Delhi Police investigation into finding the men who perpetrated a horrific crime. Delhi registered a single case under the Act in 2020, the sole case from 2016 onwards. Only 8 states and Delhi have registered any case under the Air and Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act in 2020. Fourteen states and two Union Territories have seen an increase in cases compared to 2019. UP registered 2,981 cases, including 1,317 under the Forest Act and Forest Conservation Act - the highest under this Act for any State. This was followed by Rajasthan with 9,543 cases (94% of cases were under the Noise Pollution and Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act).
Tamil Nadu registered the highest number of cases, 42,756, of which 42,731 are under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act. To show more enforcement, cases have been included under environment-related cases.” It lays down the manner in which warnings are to be made and sets out punishments for smoking in certain places, and advertisements.Įnvironmental lawyer Ritwick Dutta pointed out that the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act has very little to do with the environment: “It does not fall under the Ministry of Environment or the Pollution Control Boards, and it is not an environmental crime. Sections under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003, include prohibition of smoking in a public place, prohibition of advertisement of cigarettes and other tobacco products, and prohibition of sale of these products to persons below the age of 18.