New Delhi: A 23-year-old student who was brutally gang raped in bus in Indian capital dubbed as ‘the rape capital’ New Delhi has told her family that she wants to live.
Thousands of demonstrators have clashed with police after they tried to march to the presidential building in New Delhi, throwing stones while tear gas was fired in retaliation.
Inside the Intensive Care Unit at Safdarjung Hospital, the young victim has been communicating with her parents by scrawling notes on a piece of paper as she battles to stay alive.
“Have they (the rapists) been caught?” she asked on Thursday.
“They should be punished” she wrote on another. And finally, “I want to live”.
Local police have arrested six suspects following the attack on December 16 when the girl was repeatedly raped and penetrated with an iron rod while on a contract bus.
She has had to have her intestine removed and doctors were initially doubtful she would survive.
Delhi has a high number of crimes against women but there has been a 20 percent increase in rape cases this year.
In 2011 there were 482 complaints in Delhi – dubbed ‘the rape capital’ – compared with 582 up to the end of November and there are 350 cases still to be heard.
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