NEW DELHI (Reuters)
- Passers-by left the gang-raped student lying unclothed and bleeding
in the street for almost an hour, the male friend who was assaulted with
her said on Friday in his first public comments on the case that
provoked a global outcry.
The 23-year-old student
died in hospital two weeks after she was attacked on December 16 in a
private bus in New Delhi, prompting street protests over the
authorities' failure to stem rampant violence against women.
The graphic account from
the man in a television interview is likely to add fuel to public anger
over the death in a country where official statistics show one rape is
reported every 20 minutes.
The woman's friend told the Zee News television network he was beaten unconscious with a metal bar by her attackers before the pair were thrown off the bus.
They lay in the street for
45 minutes before a police van arrived, and officers then spent a long
time arguing about where to take them, the man said.
"We kept shouting at the
police, 'please give us some clothes' but they were busy deciding which
police station our case should be registered at," the man said in Hindi.
Delhi police spokesman
Rajan Bhagat told Reuters GPS records show the first police van reached
the scene four minutes after the police were called, and took the man
and the woman to hospital within 24 minutes.
Neither the woman nor her
friend have been named. Five men were charged with her gang rape and
murder on Thursday. They must appear before a New Delhi court on Monday
to hear the charges against them, the court said on Saturday.
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Shameful
and painful incident..protest march-candle march will not do anything if we
people and our so called protectors will not change their mindset..for
25mins they were asking for help and none of nearby passengers dared to
stop and help and the police-just one word for them-INSANE.!
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Very Shameful!
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