Indian government seeks life sentences for Delhi bus rapists
December 21, 2012 | AFP
NEW DELHI: India’s government, facing swelling protests over the gang-rape of a female student on a bus, vowed on Friday to press for life sentences for her six attackers and promised stricter policing. Home Secretary R.K. Singh also said the government would pay the medical bills of the 23-year-old victim of the brutal Sunday night attack who is fighting for her life in hospital after suffering serious injuries to her intestines. “We will ask for the maximum punishment of life imprisonment and ask the court for the speedy trial of the accused,” Singh said as New Delhi and other cities continued to be swept by an unprecedented wave of demonstrations by women demanding better safety.
December 21, 2012 | AFP
NEW DELHI: India’s government, facing swelling protests over the gang-rape of a female student on a bus, vowed on Friday to press for life sentences for her six attackers and promised stricter policing. Home Secretary R.K. Singh also said the government would pay the medical bills of the 23-year-old victim of the brutal Sunday night attack who is fighting for her life in hospital after suffering serious injuries to her intestines. “We will ask for the maximum punishment of life imprisonment and ask the court for the speedy trial of the accused,” Singh said as New Delhi and other cities continued to be swept by an unprecedented wave of demonstrations by women demanding better safety.
From what I understand, a 23 year old physiotherapy student and her 28 year old male companion were viciously beaten with an iron rod and the woman was gang-raped on a chartered bus. Six men, including the bus driver, have been arrested. The woman's injuries were extensive and severe. In tandem with being beaten with the metal rod, it was inserted inside her and when withdrawn part of her intestines were removed. The pair were thrown from the bus semi-naked and a passerby phoned police. The bus had passed through 3 police checkpoints during the course of this crime. Doctors in New Delhi say they have never seen anything like it. Parliament is in an uproar while the High Court has criticized police for being "evasive" during the course of the investigation. New Delhi has been characterized as the rape capital of India with almost 700 cases of rape reported this year. The protesters are demanding that the six be hanged, and more stringent laws and measures to protect women from the unbridled wave of rape and sexual assault.
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