Youngest gang-rapist 'ripped victim's intestines out with his hands', police charge sheet reveals as six suspects are charged with murder

Alleged attackers kept away from court for fear of mob violence

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



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 student paramedic, with one named as Ram Singh.

Today it emerged that a sixth suspect, who is believed to be a juvenile and is expected to be tried separately, was the cruellest of all.



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.

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Indian police personnel stand guard outside the district court Saket in New Delhi after fears of mob violence against the suspects

Public interest: Indian citizens queue to enter the Saket district court in New Delhi - where two of the five men accused of raping Miss Singh Pandey today begged to be allowed to turn witness for the prosecution

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

The newspaper reported that he pulled her intestines out with his bare hands and was also responsibl e for suggesting that she be 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.



Indian TV station 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 the victim's 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.

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

In 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'

A 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 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.’

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

India'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'.

AUDIO Gang rape victim's father speaks for the first time. Listen in full here

Anger: Protests continued in Delhi on New Year's Day as it was revealed that the victim was thrown under a bus by her attackers, police sources said

Message: An Indian man arranges posters on a road during a protest to mourn the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi

The father and brother of the girl said that 'if the government names the revised anti-rape law after her, we have no objection and it would be an honour to her'.

The rape victim died at the weekend after 13-day struggle to survive injuries so severe that the majority of her intestines had to be removed.



As protests about violence against women grow louder in India, a 17-year-old school student has come forward to claim she was sedated and raped by two men in the upscale south Delhi colony of Safdarjung Enclave on New Year's Eve.

The two men in their late 20s were arrested and sent to Tihar Jail.



The men, identified as Rajesh and Naveen Jain, work in IT companies, police said. They were arrested Monday night and sent to Tihar after they were produced at the Saket court.



The victim had met one of the accused on a social networking site.

Tense: The body of a young woman who was gang-raped and brutally beaten on a bus in India's capital was cremated but her family say she could have survived

Aware: The body of the tragic student victim was cremated amid tight security, police said

She met the man on Dec 31 at a south Delhi market and then asked her to accompany him to a flat in Safdarjung Enclave. There he was joined by his friend, police sources said.



The two are then said to have sedated her and took turns in raping her. They also warned her of dire consequences if she revealed anything.

Changes to the government's mentality appear already to be changing in light of the attack.

Politicians facing sexual assault charges may now be suspended from office as the country's highest court prepares to rule on an application to ban regional and national MPs.

As part of that campaign, Chief Justice Altamas Kabir agreed to hear a petition this week from retired government administrator Promilla Shanker asking the Supreme Court to suspend all politicians who are facing prosecution for crimes against women.

She also asked the court to force the national government to fast-track thousands of rape cases that have languished in India's notoriously sluggish court system for years.

Six state MPs are facing rape prosecutions and two national ones are facing charges of crimes against women that fall short of rape.

Treatment: The rape victim was taken to intensive care at a Singapore hospital but died of her injuries

Poignant: White lilies could be seen in the back of the ambulance as the body was transported through the city

In the past five years, political parties across India nominated 260 candidates awaiting trial on charges of crimes against women. Parties ran six candidates for the national parliamentary elections facing such charges.

'We need to decriminalise politics and surely a serious effort has to be made to stop people who have serious charges of sexual assault against them from contesting elections," said Zoya Hasan, a political analyst.

Several thousand women joined a silent march to Gandhi's memorial in the capital in memory of the victim, holding placards demanding "Respect" and "Justice." Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit joined the women for a prayer session for the victim.

The government has set up a task force to monitor women's safety in New Delhi and to review whether police were properly protecting women. It had set up two earlier bodies to look into the handling of the rape case and to suggest changes in the nation's rape laws.

WATCH Delhi protests as its revealed rape victim was thrown under bus



