New Delhi, Jan 21: Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Monday said that the huge public outrage and the protests that followed the brutal gang-rape of the 23-year-old paramedicalstudent in Delhi on December 16, 2012 were justified and necessary.
“I wish I could also have been there, but I can't” Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Monday said while terming the upsurge and protest that took place in the wake of the December 16 gang-rape incident as “fully justified” and “absolutely necessary”.
“What happened that day (December 16) was not something new ... but it caught the imagination of the people and led to atremendous upsurge and this upsurge as I have said earlier also, was fully justified. What started as a protest, as a mark of showing one's anger, it was all genuine, absolutely necessary ...”, Justice Kabir said.
“I salute everybody who took part (in the protests). I wish I could also have been there, but I can't,” he said on the sidelines of the Sixth National Conference on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.
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