Mourners, many of them carrying candles and black clothes pasted across their mouths, marched along the main thoroughfares of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad,
Thiruvananthapuram, Bangalore and several other parts of the country.
The demonstrations in Delhi were peaceful, unlike last weekend, when police had charged with batons, fired water cannons and teargas in clashes with protesters.
In one of the protests in the national capital, students of Jawaharlal Nehru University marched from their campus to the bus stop in Munirka locality in South Delhi from where the girl had boarded the bus in which she was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on December 16, 2012.
The students announced they will hold a night vigil at the same spot on New Year Eve demanding strong laws to punish sexual offenders.
Activists of Left parties took out a peace march from Mandi House to Jantar Mantar led by CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat who said there was a need for fixing accountability in order to prevent recurrence of the incident.
