The country has been in a uproar as the prosecutors are pushing for the death penalty. The victim died in a Singapore hospital of massive internal injuries.
According to Reuters videos, the girls father the same day called for the men accused of the vicious crime to be hanged!A hearing in the case is scheduled for Saturday at a new fast-track court inaugurated this week to deal with rape cases in the capital.
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.
Police have said the accused have admitted to torturing and raping the student "to teach her a lesson". She fought back and bit three of them, a police source told Reuters, and the bite marks are part of the evidence against them.
After throwing her from the private bus, the driver tried to run the victim over but she was pulled away by her companion, a senior police official told Reuters.
Police have prepared a dossier of evidence and charges against the accused, which is believed to run to 1,000 pages, including testimony from the woman's friend who survived the hour-long attack and a man who said he was robbed by the same gang prior to the rape.The victim has been cremated.
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