New Delhi: After President Ram Nath Kovind delivered a green signal to an ordinance for the death penalty to child rapists, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal today called off her fast after nine days.

Maliwal, 33, went on an indefinite hunger strike at Rajghat and refused to break it till such time the government acted seriously against those who sexually assault young girls.

On Sunday, the President promulgated The Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018, which was approved by the cabinet on Saturday.

Maliwal began her fast following the widely condemned rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir in January and similar crimes elsewhere in the country.