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’Nobody helped us’

Delhi rape victim's friend recounts event

Agencies
Claims of police incompetence and public apathy stirred fresh outrage yesterday in the case of a New Delhi gang-rape victim after her boyfriend recounted witnessing the horrific crime for the first time.
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 Indian authorities’ failure to stem rampant violence against women.
Speaking to AFP and an Indian news channel, the boyfriend said passers-by ignored the naked and bloodied couple for 30 minutes after they were thrown out
of the bus and police then wasted more time arguing over who had jurisdiction.
"A passer-by found us (after the attack), but he did not even give my friend his jacket," he told AFP in the interview which also raised questions about the medical treatment given to the woman at a government hospital.
The graphic account from the man in a television interview added 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.
"The cruelty I saw should not be seen ever," the man, who cannot be
named for legal reasons, told AFP of the savagery of the assault which started after the couple were lured onto the bus after watching a film together.
He said it took 90 minutes for the injured pair to reach hospital because passers-by ignored their pleas for help, and police were late to arrive and then needlessly delayed.
"They could have taken us to hospital, given us clothes in that crucial one-and-a-half hours. For a dying person every minute is important," he told the channel.
"From where we
boarded the bus, they (the attackers) moved around for nearly two and a half hours. We were shouting, trying to make people hear us. But they switched off the lights of the bus," he said, according to a transcript of the interview.
When they were thrown out, they pleaded with passers-by for help, he added in the studio interview, a blue metal crutch leaning on his chair.
"There were a few people who had gathered round but nobody helped. Before the police came I screamed for help but the auto rickshaws, cars and
others passing by did not stop," the man added.
Facing angry criticism on the streets, where protests have raged over the last three weeks against the lack of safety in the Indian capital, the police issued a hasty rebuttal.
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.
Separately, the police filed a case against Zee News because the interview, which showed the
boyfriend's face unobscured, had illegally disclosed the identity of a rape victim.
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 yesterday.