Court lifts media ban on Delhi gang-rape trial: lawyer
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In this photograph taken on Jan 2, 2013, Indian women hold placards during the Women Dignity march in New Delhi, following the Dec 2012 fatal gang-rape of a student in the capital. An Indian court on Friday overturned a gag order restricting media access to the trial of four men charged with gang raping a student on a bus in New Delhi last December, a prosecutor said. -- FILE PHOTO: AFP
NEW DELHI (AFP) - An Indian court overturned a gag order on Friday that prevented media access to the trial of four men charged over the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi last December, lawyers said.
The case has led to months of soul-searching over endemic sex crime, resulted in new tougher laws to punish rapists and focused global attention on violence against women in India.
Amid conflicting reports about the ruling, Mr Meenakshi Lekhi, a Supreme Court lawyer who filed the plea to overturn the ban in the Delhi High Court, explained that access
would be limited and come with safeguards.
