Gruesome: Youngest Indian rape gang ‘ripped victim’s intestines out with his bare hands’ + SNAPSHOTS of protestors

  • Police arrested six people in the case – trial will be held in a fast track court
  • Lawyers refuse to defend six men accused of raping victim, 23, on Delhi bus
  • Accused admit they raped student ‘to teach her a lesson’
  • Court inaugurated day before to deal specifically with crimes against women
  • Medical tests to be carried out to determine if one attacker is a juvenile
  • Bus driver questioned over claims he tried to run victim over

A group of Indian men accused of gang raping a 23-year-old woman were today kept away from court amid fears of mob violence.

Five people have been formally charged over the rape and murder of the physiotherapy student.

Today it emerged a sixth suspect, who is believed to be a juvenile and is expected to be tried separately, is alleged to have ripped out the victim’s intestines.

According to The Hindustan Times, a charge sheet said the attacker pulled her organs out with his hands then raped her twice, once when she was unconscious.

On guard: Indian police personnel stand guard outside the district court Saket in New Delhi. They plan to keep On guard: Indian police personnel stand guard outside the district court Saket in New Delhi. They plan to keep Indian gang rape suspects away from court today fearing mob violence as they face charges over the rape and murder of a 23-year-old university student on a bus

 

Public interest: Indian citizens queue to enter the district court - they trial will be held in a first-track court Public interest: Indian citizens queue to enter the district court – the trial will be held in a first-track court

 

Anger: India lawyers participate in a protest outside Indian Saket District Court earlier todayAnger: India lawyers participate in a protest outside Indian Saket District Court earlier today

The newspaper also reported that he was responsible for suggesting she was thrown naked from the bus.

Today her father called for the hanging of those responsible for the attack saying ‘the death penalty is compulsory for a crime so great.’

The trial will be held in a fast track court and will start on Saturday.

‘Of all the persons in the bus, two had engaged in the most barbarism – Ram Singh, the main accused in the case, and the juvenile ‘ said an officer according to the paper.

NDTV has shown footage understood to be the suspects charged in the Delhi gang-rape case.NDTV has shown footage understood to be the suspects charged in the gang-rape case

‘Both of them had subjected her to sexual abuse twice. Singh was the first to rape her followed by the juvenile and then Akshay. Later, when she lost consciousness, Singh and the juvenile raped her a second time.’

Authorities are waiting for the outcome of a bone marrow test before deciding whether the sixth suspect in the attack will be charged as a juvenile or an adult.

The results of the test, intended to determine the suspect’s exact age, are expected to arrive soon.

 

Police plan to ask for the death penalty in the case. The men – the bus driver, his brother and four of their friends – are residents of a south Delhi slum near the site of the attack.

Indian Chief Justice Altamas Kabir said the accused should be tried swiftly, but cautioned that they needed to be given a fair trial and not subjected to mob justice.

‘Let us not lose sight of the fact that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty,’ he said yesterday, while inaugurating the new fast-track court.

Calls for hanging: In an interview her father said 'The death penalty is compulsory for a crime so great - the assailants must be hanged'Calls for hanging: In an interview her father said ‘The death penalty is compulsory for a crime so great – the assailants must be hanged’Criminal lawyer Ajay Digpaul told India Today: ‘In my view, it should not take more than 10-15 effective hearings to decide the case it as there is plenty of evidence.’

Sanjay Kumar, a lawyer and a member of the Saket District Bar Council said that 2,500 advocates registered at the court had decided to stay away to ensure ‘speedy justice’.

‘We have decided that no lawyer will stand up to defend the rape accused as it would be immoral to defend the case,’ he said to AFP.

The government is to set up four other such courts in the capital to hold timely trials in sexual assault cases, which often get bogged down for years in India’s notoriously sluggish court system.

Women’s activists hope the rape and killing of the university student on December 16 will mark a turning point in India’s behaviour towards women.

Yesterday the father of the physiotherapy student paid tribute to his ‘fiercely determined’ daughter in his first interview since the attack happened.

 

 Indian women and men participate in peace marchThousands of Indian women and men participate in peace march with placards carrying pro-women slogans to Mahatma Gandhi memorial, Rajghat, in New Delhi, India

Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, todayA group of protesters perform religious ritual for the 23 year old gang rape victim at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, todayIn an interview with the BBC the day after he scattered his daughter’s ashes on the sacred waters of the River Ganges, her father revealed how his daughter wanted to be a doctor and had promised to lift the family from their poverty.

He said: ‘She was very adamant about whatever she wanted.

MUMBAI BAR VANDALISED FOR SELLING ‘RAPIST COCKTAIL’

image002.pngA bar selling a cocktail called the ‘rapist’ has been vandalised by a group of women from India’s Nationalist Congress Party.

The women teared up the menus and attacked the staff at the Bonobo bar in Mumbai where the drink is sold.

The cocktail is named ‘Balatkari’ and members of the party are demanding that the police arrest the bar owners.

‘When we used to stop at a sweetshop on the way to school she was adamant about wanting a sweet and even the shopkeeper had to relent.

‘It was the same in high school. She wanted to be a doctor and said it was only a matter of a few years and that when she was a doctor (all our suffering) it will end.’

‘I remember asking her once, who are all your friends? She replied, Dad it’s only my books I am friends with.’

Her father moved the family to Delhi from a rural part of India in order to improve her chances of realising her ambition of a career in medicine.

The dream was cut short on December 16 when she was attacked by six men after as she caught the bus home after going to the cinema to watch The Life of Pi. She died from her injuries on Friday.

Fresh details of the case have emerged in the Indian press where it is reported that her attackers tried to throw her under the bus after raping her inside it.

Speaking on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning, Indira Jaising, the Additional Solicitor General of India, denied that rape is solely an Indian problem – but admitted that the conviction rate in the country was low.

A protester at Jantar Mantar in New DelhiA protester at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. The crowds chanted slogans against the government for its perceived inaction in preventing cases of rape and being unable to better protect women in the capital

She said: ‘The problem of rape I’ve seen all over the world, it’s not a particular India phenomenon.

‘What we’re complaining about is the process is too slow, the conviction rate is low.’

She said that all too often it was the victim who was scrutinized and questioned, rather than the accused – and took a swipe at America, recalling the comments of Todd Akin, the Missouri Republican who said women’s bodies could ‘shut down’ to prevent a rape.

‘You see the blame game, blaming the witness, finding out did she invite the rape. In the US, they’ve distinguished between legitimate rape and rape.

‘Universally there’s a stigma for bringing a rape case to court. There are families who would discourage their daughters going to court.’

Peace marchThe event was organized by the Delhi Government, Delhi Commission for Women to pay homage to the 23 year old Delhi gang-rape victim and for women safety

 

ProtestIndia’s people have been outraged by the sickening gang rape attack and have taken to the streets all over the country

In a show of solidarity with the victim, thousands of Indian women and men took  part in the biggest protest yet since they started following the student’s death last week.

The protesters carried pro-women slogans to the Mahatma Gandhi memorial, Rajghat, in New Delhi, yesterday morning.

The event was organized by the Delhi Government, Delhi Commission for Women to pay homage to the 23 year old Delhi gang-rape victim and for women safety.

On Monday Indian police arrested a man who tried to blow up the house belonging to the driver of a Delhi bus, as lawyers refuse to defend the accused rapists.

He was found with two homemade bombs outside the house of bus driver Ram Singh in south Delhi’s RK Puram area. Two other men escaped arrest.

It comes as the Indian government proposed to name a revised anti-rape law after the victim, a move her family referred to as an ‘honour’.

Daily Mail UK

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  1. Am very sorry 4 her family nd. D accuse person dey should sentence him life in prisonment.

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