DHAKA: The family of a student who died after being brutally gang-raped in New Delhi has called for the death penalty ahead of a court’s verdict on her alleged attackers.

The court is expected to deliver its verdict on Tuesday after concluding a trial against four adults over the assault on a moving bus in December, a crime that shone a global spotlight on the rise of violence against women in India.

The New Delhi court heard that the 23-year-old physiotherapy student was repeatedly raped by six men and violated with an iron rod after being lured onto the private bus following a trip to the movies with a male friend.

The student and her friend were thrown, naked and bleeding, from the bus onto a roadside, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 1702 HRS, SEPT 08, 2013
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