Public outcry and quest for justice after the December 16 gangrape prompted investigators to use new tools of probe to nail the culprits, the Delhi High Court today said.
Ruling out the possibility of foisting the case against the accused, the high court noted that the rape of a 23- year-old girl, hardly out of her teens, would have gone unnoticed as scores of other violations of infants, girls and women.
"... But for fact that a public outraged at the manner in which the entrails of the ravished were culled out of her body, leaving her to die, stripped of all human dignity, completely unattired, in the darkness of a wintry night, on a thoroughfare, took to the streets in their quest for justice.
"This had the trigger effect of impelling the investigative agencies into using such tools of investigation as had lain in their tool-kit hitherto before practically unused, to nail the culprits," a bench of justices Reva Khetrapal and Pratibha Rani said while stressing for sensitisation even the judges to gender issues.
