Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal ends hunger strike

Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal today ended her hunger strike after President Ram Nath Kovind promulgated an ordinance to give stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below 12 years.

She was on the hunger strike for the last ten days at Rajghat here.

As she congratulated the people for the ordinance, Maliwal noted that very few protests had achieved so much in such less time, and termed the governments decision a "historic victory" for independent India.

The DCW chief, however, said that it was not the end of the fight and if the government would not be able to implement the law in three months, she would fight again.