Notorious Delhi Rape Case’s End Means Little for Women’s Safety

Rape is still a grim fact of life in India

By: Neeta Lal 

Last week, as India executed six of the four rapists (one was declared a minor; the second allegedly committed suicide) in the unspeakable 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, there was collective relief that the law had finally caught up with the perpetrators of the brutal crime. 

But while that may …