New Delhi: The first day of the second fortnight of the last month of the year wreaked havoc on a girl in Delhi. On 16 December 2012, a girl student was gang-raped in a moving bus in the presence of a friend of hers and both of them were thrown from the bus on a chilly winter night. was thrown out. The victim, who was later taken to Singapore for treatment, died there. The 23-year-old victim of this case was named “Nirbhaya” and the demand for justice for her took the form of agitation in the country. In this case, six persons including Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh were made accused. One of them was a minor. Ram Singh, an accused in the case, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail after the trial began.
The minor was convicted after trial and sent to a correctional home. He was released in 2015 after spending three years in a correctional home. After a long legal battle, finally on 20 March 2020, the four convicts in this case were hanged. The date of December 16 is also recorded in history with the tragic incident of terrorist attack on innocent school children in Pakistan.
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On 16 December 2014, terrorists of the Tehreek-e-Taliban, a Pakistani arm of the Taliban, targeted a school in Peshawar and opened fire indiscriminately killing 150 people. Of these, 134 were children. Six terrorists in the uniform of security forces entered the army school and carried out this cowardly attack. At that time there were more than 1500 children in the school and during the attack more than 1000 children were evacuated safely. The rest of the children were trapped in the school and 134 of them lost their lives.
The serial details of other important events recorded in the name of the date of December 16 are as follows:
1631: Six villages were devastated by a volcanic eruption in Italy’s Vesuvius Mountains, killing more than 4,000 people.
1920: More than one lakh people died in a severe earthquake in China’s Kansu province.
[1945: Twice Prime Minister of Japan Fumimaro Kanoe committed suicide instead of facing war crimes. 1951: Salarjung Museum was established in Hyderabad.
1960: 136 people died when two planes collided in New York City, USA.
1971: Bangladesh became an independent nation by separating from Pakistan after the armies of India and Pakistan agreed on a ceasefire.
1985: Country’s first fast breeder nuclear reactor started functioning at Kalpakkam.
2009: Taking filmmaking to a new level, James Cameron produced the science based film ‘Avatar’. The film grossed $2.7 billion worldwide.
2012: Angry over the gang rape of a 23-year-old girl student in a moving bus in Delhi and the incident, people took to the streets. Later the victim died and the culprits were sentenced to death.
2014: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan terrorists attacked a school in Peshawar. 150 people died in the firing, including 134 children. (agency)