Hundreds of protesters, seething in rage and anguish, demanded capital punishment for the rape accused while others sought justice.
Mourners, many of them carrying candles and black clothes pasted across their mouths, marched along the main thoroughfares of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Bangalore and several other parts of the country.
The demonstrations in Delhi were peaceful, unlike last weekend, when police had charged with batons, fired water cannons and teargas in clashes with protesters.
In one of the protests in the national capital, students of Jawaharlal Nehru University marched from their campus to the bus stop in Munirka locality in South Delhi from where the girl had boarded the bus in which she was gangraped and brutally assaulted on December 16 allegedly by six men.
The students announced they will hold a night vigil at the same spot on New Year Eve demanding strong laws to punish sexual offenders.
Activists of Left parties took out a peace march from Mandi House to Jantar Mantar led by CPI(M) Politburo member Brinda Karat who said there was a need for fixing accountability in order to prevent recurrence of the incident.
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At Jantar Mantar, where people started gathering since morning, mourners sat on a silent protest. Later there were sloganeering and demands for immediate punishment for the rape culprits.
Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal and his associates Manish Sisodia and Kumar Vishwas also joined the protest along with some of their supporters with their mouth tied with black cloth.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit faced public anger forcing her to beat a hasty retreat from Jantar Mantar where she had gone to join the mourners.
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