What!? “We raped her to teach her a lesson” – Indian bus gang rapist admits crime, as lawyers refuse to defend them ... DAILY MAIL UK

A friend of the Indian gang-rape victim today claimed police waited more than two hours to take her to hospital despite the appalling injuries she suffered in the attack.
The man, believed to be the only witness in the case, said the victim was positive and wanted to live even after the horrific ordeal she had gone through.
But he claimed no-one came to their aid when they were thrown off the bus where she was assaulted and that even after the police arrived, it took them over two hours to take them to hospital.

The friend of the Indian gang rape victim (seen here being taken into intensive care at a Singapore hospital) has spoken for the first time about the horrific attack

His comments come after her alleged killers were yesterday kept away from court amid fears of mob violence.
He said since December 16, said: ‘Many things have come out in the media, but people have been interpreting it differently.
‘I want to tell them what we faced on that night. I want to tell what I faced, what my friend faced,’ he told Zee News.
He said six men had lured them into boarding the bus on the night of December 16.

‘The occupants of the bus which had tinted windows and curtains had trapped us. They were probably involved in crimes before also.

‘They beat us up, hit us with iron rod, snatched our clothes and belongings and they threw us off the bus on a deserted stretch.
‘From where we boarded bus, they moved around for nearly two and a half hours. We were shouting, trying to make people hear us.
‘But they switched off the lights. We tried to resist them. Even my friend fought with them, she tried to save me. She tried to dial police control room number 100, but the men snatched the mobile.
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On guard: Indian police personnel stand guard outside the district court Saket in New Delhi. They planned to keep the Indian gang rape suspects away from court yesterday fearing mob violence as they face charges over the rape and murder of a 23-year-old on a bus

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

Anger: India lawyers participate in a protest outside Indian Saket District Court ‘After throwing us off the bus, they tried to mow us down, but I saved my friend by pulling her away in the nick of time.
‘We were without clothes. We tried to stop people passing by. Several auto rickshaws, cars and bikes slowed down but no one stopped for about 25 minutes.
‘Then someone on patrol stopped and called the police,’ he told Zee News.
He claimed three police vans arrived at the scene after about 45 minutes, but wasted time in deciding under which police station’s jurisdiction the case fell.
He alleged nobody, including the police, gave them clothes or called an ambulance.
‘They were just watching us,’ he said, adding someone gave them a part of bed sheet to cover his friend after repeated requests.
‘My friend was bleeding profusely. But instead of taking us to a nearby hospital, they (police) took us to a far away hospital.’

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

He said he carried his badly injured friend to the PCR van on his own as the policemen didn’t help them because the girl was bleeding profusely.
‘Nobody from the public helped us. People were probably afraid that if they help us they would become witness to the crime and would be asked to come to police stations and courts,’ he told the channel.
‘Even at the hospital we were made to wait and I had to literally beg for clothes. I borrowed a stranger’s mobile and called my relatives, but just told them that I met with an accident. My treatment started only after my relatives came,’ he said.
‘I was hit on the head. I was not able to walk. I was not able to move my hands for two weeks,’ he said, detailing the injuries he suffered on that horrific night.
Five people have been formally charged over the rape and murder of the student paramedic, with one named as Ram Singh.
It has emerged that a sixth suspect, who is believed to be a juvenile and is expected to be tried separately, was the cruellest of all.

Calls for hanging: In an interview her father said ‘The death penalty is compulsory for a crime so great – the assailants must be hanged’ According to The Hindustan Times, a police charge sheet reveals in horrendous detail exactly what he is alleged to have done to the unconscious victim – after she had been raped.
The newspaper reported that he pulled her intestines out with his bare hands and was also responsible for suggesting that she be thrown naked from the bus.
Yesterday, 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.
‘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.

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

A group of protesters perform religious ritual for the 23 year old gang rape victim at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, today 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.
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.’

- Daily Mail UK