Gang-rape victim's friend recounts attack
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January 6, 2013, Sunday
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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 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 rape and beating by a group of men on a bus, which the pair had boarded as they were returning from seeing a movie.
"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 took her to the rear seats of the bus and began raping, beating and violating her with an iron rod.
The men dumped the pair bleeding and naked under an overpass. The woman's companion waved to passersby on bikes, in auto rickshaws and in cars for help, but no one stopped. "They slowed down, looked at our naked bodies and left," he said.
Yesterday, 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.
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.
Also yesterday, a court asked police to produce five men accused of raping the student for pre-trial proceedings tomorrow. Police have charged them with murder, rape and other crimes that could bring 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.
Meanwhile, the rape victim's brother said the delay in treatment led to complications which perhaps caused her death.
"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. "By then a lot of blood was lost," he said.
The woman died last weekend from massive internal injuries.
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 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 rape and beating by a group of men on a bus, which the pair had boarded as they were returning from seeing a movie.
"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 took her to the rear seats of the bus and began raping, beating and violating her with an iron rod.
The men dumped the pair bleeding and naked under an overpass. The woman's companion waved to passersby on bikes, in auto rickshaws and in cars for help, but no one stopped. "They slowed down, looked at our naked bodies and left," he said.
Yesterday, 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.
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.
Also yesterday, a court asked police to produce five men accused of raping the student for pre-trial proceedings tomorrow. Police have charged them with murder, rape and other crimes that could bring 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.
Meanwhile, the rape victim's brother said the delay in treatment led to complications which perhaps caused her death.
"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. "By then a lot of blood was lost," he said.
The woman died last weekend from massive internal injuries.
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