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Also Saturday, a court asked police to produce five men accused of raping the student for pre-trial proceedings on Monday. Police have charged them with murder, rape and other crimes that could bring them the death penalty.
A sixth suspect, listed as a 17-year-old, was expected to be tried in a juvenile court, where the maximum sentence would be three years in a reform facility.
Prosecutor Rajiv Mohan said the summary received from Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore said the rape victim's death was caused by septicemia and multiple-organ failure, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
He also told Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal that the DNA test confirmed that the blood of the victim tallied with the blood stains found on the clothes of all the accused.
Meanwhile, the rape victim's brother said the delay in providing medical treatment led to complications which perhaps caused her death.
The 23-year-old woman died last weekend from massive internal injuries suffered during the attack.
"The attack was so brutal I can't even tell you ... even animals don't behave like that," the man said.
The men dumped their bleeding and naked bodies under an overpass. The woman's companion waved to passersby on bikes, in autorickshaws and in cars for help, but no one stopped. "They slowed down, looked at our naked bodies and left," he said.
"My friend was grievously injured and bleeding profusely," he said. "Cars, autos and bikes slowed down and sped away. I kept waving for help. The ones who stopped stared at us, discussing what could have happened. Nobody did anything."
After about 20 minutes, three police vans arrived, but the officers argued over who had jurisdiction over the crime as the man pleaded for clothes and an ambulance, he said.
Finally, he said, they were taken to a hospital.
The man said he was given no medical care. He then spent four days at the police station helping police investigate the crime. He said he visited his friend in the hospital, told her the attackers were arrested and promised to fight for her.
Authorities have not named the man because of the sensitivity of the case. Zee News also declined to give his name, although it did show his face during the interview.
Indian law prohibits the disclosure of the identity of victims in rape cases, and police have opened an investigation into the TV station for broadcasting the interview, New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said Saturday. Violators of the law can face up to two years in prison and a fine.
The male friend of a woman who died after being gang-raped and
sexually assaulted with an iron rod in New Delhi described the attack
for the first time publicly in an interview broadcast Friday.
The details of the vicious attack and its aftermath provided by the man paint a bleak picture of India’s capital city, one in which the assailants had laid a carefully planned trap and neither citizens nor police officials rushed to help a naked, bleeding couple who were left on the side of a highway.
From the time the two were thrown from the moving bus in which they were attacked until they were taken to a hospital, two hours had elapsed, he told Zee News, an Indian news channel.
“We were without clothes,” he said. “We tried to stop people passing by.” After 25 minutes someone called the police, he said. Then, after three police vans arrived, officers argued over who had jurisdiction over the case, he said. He had to carry his friend into the police vehicle, he said, after the police refused because she was bleeding too much.
The man, whose name was disclosed in early reports from Zee News but deleted in later reports, said the police did not take them to the closest hospital, but one farther away. “Even at the hospital we were made to wait and I had to literally beg for clothes,” he said.
The New Delhi police said they planned to file a case against Zee News for broadcasting the interview. The case will be filed under Section 228 (A) of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with the disclosure of identity of victims of certain crimes, including rape.
In the interview, the man said that the attack itself was well planned. “Apart from the driver and helper, others behaved like they were passengers,” he said, until after the couple paid the 20-rupee fee and sat down. “Then they started teasing my friend and the same led to a brawl,” he said. “I beat three of them up but then the rest brought an iron rod and hit me. Before I fell unconscious, they took my friend away.”
NEW DELHI (AP) —
Passers-by refused to stop to help a naked, bleeding gang-rape victim
after she was dumped from a bus onto a New Delhi street, and police
delayed taking her to a hospital for 30 minutes, the woman's male
companion said in an interview. It was his first public account of the
gruesome attack that killed the 23-year-old student and prompted demands
for reform of a law enforcement culture seen as lax in crimes against women.
The gang-rape victim's brother
blamed a delay in medical treatment of nearly two hours for her death
last week in a Singapore hospital.
The woman's male companion, who has not been named, sat in a wheelchair with a broken leg in his interview aired Friday on Indian TV station Zee News.
He recounted the 2 ½ hour rape and beating by a group of men on a bus,
which the pair had boarded as they were returning from seeing a movie
together.
"I gave a tough fight to three of
them. I punched them hard. But then two others hit me with an iron
rod," he said. The woman tried to call the police using her mobile
phone, but the men took it away from her, he said. They then took her to
the rear seats of the bus and one-by-one began raping her, beating and
violating her with an iron rod.
Afterward, he overheard some of the attackers saying the woman was dead before dumping both onto the street, he said.
On Saturday, police officer Vivek Gogia denied the companion's assertion that police officers debated jurisdiction for 30 minutes before taking the rape victim and her friend to a hospital.
In a statement, Gogia said police vans
reached the spot where the rape victim and her friend were dumped
within three minutes of receiving the alert. "Police vans left the spot
for hospital with the victims within 12 minutes," he said.
That time was spent in borrowing bed sheets from a neighboring hotel to cover the naked rape victim and her friend, he said.Also Saturday, a court asked police to produce five men accused of raping the student for pre-trial proceedings on Monday. Police have charged them with murder, rape and other crimes that could bring them the death penalty.
A sixth suspect, listed as a 17-year-old, was expected to be tried in a juvenile court, where the maximum sentence would be three years in a reform facility.
Prosecutor Rajiv Mohan said the summary received from Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore said the rape victim's death was caused by septicemia and multiple-organ failure, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
He also told Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal that the DNA test confirmed that the blood of the victim tallied with the blood stains found on the clothes of all the accused.
Meanwhile, the rape victim's brother said the delay in providing medical treatment led to complications which perhaps caused her death.
"She told me that after the
incident she had asked passers-by for help but to no avail, and it was
only after the highway patrol alerted the police that she was rushed to
hospital, but it had taken almost two hours," the Press Trust of India quoted the brother as saying in his ancestral village, Medawara Kala, in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
"By then a lot of blood was lost," he said.The 23-year-old woman died last weekend from massive internal injuries suffered during the attack.
On the night of the attack, the
woman and her companion had just finished watching the movie "Life of
Pi" at an upscale mall and were looking for a ride home. An autorickshaw
driver declined to take them, so they boarded the private bus with the
six assailants inside, the companion told Zee News.
After the pair were on the bus for a while, the men started harassing and attacking them."The attack was so brutal I can't even tell you ... even animals don't behave like that," the man said.
The men dumped their bleeding and naked bodies under an overpass. The woman's companion waved to passersby on bikes, in autorickshaws and in cars for help, but no one stopped. "They slowed down, looked at our naked bodies and left," he said.
"My friend was grievously injured and bleeding profusely," he said. "Cars, autos and bikes slowed down and sped away. I kept waving for help. The ones who stopped stared at us, discussing what could have happened. Nobody did anything."
After about 20 minutes, three police vans arrived, but the officers argued over who had jurisdiction over the crime as the man pleaded for clothes and an ambulance, he said.
Finally, he said, they were taken to a hospital.
The man said he was given no medical care. He then spent four days at the police station helping police investigate the crime. He said he visited his friend in the hospital, told her the attackers were arrested and promised to fight for her.
Authorities have not named the man because of the sensitivity of the case. Zee News also declined to give his name, although it did show his face during the interview.
Indian law prohibits the disclosure of the identity of victims in rape cases, and police have opened an investigation into the TV station for broadcasting the interview, New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said Saturday. Violators of the law can face up to two years in prison and a fine.
The woman's companion said he gave the TV interview because he hopes it will encourage rape victims to come forward and speak about their ordeals without shame.
He said his friend was determined
to see that the attackers were punished. "She gave all details of the
crime to the magistrate — things we can't even talk about," he said.
"She told me that the culprits should be burnt alive."
He added, "People should move ahead in the struggle to prevent a similar crime happening again as a tribute to her."
Most people in India
are reluctant to get involved in police business because once they
become witnesses, they can be dragged into legal cases that can go on
for years. Also, Indian police are often seen less as protectors and
more as harassers.
On Friday, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde called for changes in the
law and the way police investigate cases so justice can be swiftly
delivered. Many rape cases are bogged down in India's overburdened and
sluggish court system for years.
In the wake of the rape, several
petitioners appealed to the Supreme Court to take an active role in the
issue of women's safety.
On Friday, the court dismissed a
petition asking it to suspend Indian lawmakers accused of crimes against
women, saying it doesn't have jurisdiction, according to the Press
Trust of India. The Association for Democratic Reforms, an organization
that tracks officials' criminal records, said six state lawmakers are
facing rape prosecutions and two national parliamentarians are facing
charges of crimes against women that fall short of rape.
However, the court did agree to
look into the widespread creation of more fast-track courts for accused
rapists across the country.
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The details of the vicious attack and its aftermath provided by the man paint a bleak picture of India’s capital city, one in which the assailants had laid a carefully planned trap and neither citizens nor police officials rushed to help a naked, bleeding couple who were left on the side of a highway.
From the time the two were thrown from the moving bus in which they were attacked until they were taken to a hospital, two hours had elapsed, he told Zee News, an Indian news channel.
“We were without clothes,” he said. “We tried to stop people passing by.” After 25 minutes someone called the police, he said. Then, after three police vans arrived, officers argued over who had jurisdiction over the case, he said. He had to carry his friend into the police vehicle, he said, after the police refused because she was bleeding too much.
The man, whose name was disclosed in early reports from Zee News but deleted in later reports, said the police did not take them to the closest hospital, but one farther away. “Even at the hospital we were made to wait and I had to literally beg for clothes,” he said.
The New Delhi police said they planned to file a case against Zee News for broadcasting the interview. The case will be filed under Section 228 (A) of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with the disclosure of identity of victims of certain crimes, including rape.
In the interview, the man said that the attack itself was well planned. “Apart from the driver and helper, others behaved like they were passengers,” he said, until after the couple paid the 20-rupee fee and sat down. “Then they started teasing my friend and the same led to a brawl,” he said. “I beat three of them up but then the rest brought an iron rod and hit me. Before I fell unconscious, they took my friend away.”
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