Akshay Kumar and Karan Johar expressed their anger on Twitter
The news of a 27-year-old woman's rape by a taxi driver here has "appalled" filmmaker Karan Johar, while Bollywood star Akshay Kumar wonders "how many more such incidents before we have stricter laws?"
A 27-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a cab driver on December 5 after she took the cab around 9.30 pm from Vasant Vihar area in the capital - the city where six rapes and 14 molestation cases were reported every day the first four months of 2014.
Angered by the incident, here's what the actors wrote on Twitter
According to a recent compilation of data by Delhi Police, 616 rapes and 1,336 molestation cases were registered between January 1 and April 30 - a 36 percent increase in rape cases compared to around 450 cases registered in the same period last year
Data of the first four months of 2014 shows that six rapes and 14 molestation cases have been reported every day. Police, however, claim to have solved almost 90 percent of the cases.
Cases of molestation recorded in the corresponding period show a similar rise with over 1,000 registered cases.