Post date: Jan 05, 2013 1:34:49 PM
Police deny charges made by the male friend of the India gang rape victim who in his first public statement since the assault said police van took 45 minutes to arrive and officers spent a long time arguing about where to take the bleeding victims.
NEW DELHI, INDIA (JANUARY 05, 2013) (ANI) - Police denied charges of the male friend of the deceased victim of theDelhi gang rape who alleged the victims lay on 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 who was assaulted with the 23-year-old student made the allegation in his first public comments on the case on Friday (January 4).
The student died in hospital two weeks after she was attacked on Dec. 16 in a private bus in New Delhi, prompting street protests over the Indian 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.
"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.
Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police, Vivek Gogia said 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.