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The gang-rape that shook a nation

As the bus drove through the streets of the capital, the men repeatedly raped and tortured the 23-year-old with a metal bar before dumping her and her friend, naked and semi-conscious, on the road.
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NEW DELHI: On the night of December 16 last year, the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student shook the conscience of the nation and saw thousands pouring on to the streets to protest the ghastly act and nudged the central government into enacting a stringent anti-rape law. Nine months on, the protesters have disappeared, but the case has left a more lasting impact on the society. The accused have been charged with gang rape, murder, attempt to murder, unnatural offences and destruction of evidence and dacoity among other offences. So what happened on the night of December 16? Police said the 23-year-old physiotherapy student and her friend were lured into the bus, both were beaten and then the woman was taken to the rear of the bus and raped. They were then thrown, bleeding, on to a dark roadside. The woman died in a Singapore hospital nearly two weeks later where she was airlifted for specialised treatment. According to the chargesheet, the juvenile had subjected the 23-year-old physiotherapist to sexual abuse twice, including once when she was unconscious. He extracted her intestine with his bare hands and suggested she be thrown off the moving vehicle devoid of her clothes, it says. "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. "Both of them had subjected her to sexual abuse twice. Singh was the first to rape her followed by the juvenile, and then the rest. Later, when she lost consciousness, Singh and the juvenile raped her a second time." The juvenile used his 'sing-song' whistle to lure the couple aboard the bus. As the bus drove through the streets of the capital, the men repeatedly raped and tortured the 23-year-old with a metal bar before dumping her and her friend (who was also brutally beaten up), naked and semi-conscious, on the road, prosecutors said. Her friend later recovered, but the woman's internal injuries were so severe that she died in a Singapore hospital two weeks after the attack. Timeline of Delhi gang rape case * Dec 16, 2012: A 23-year-old physiotherapy intern raped by six people, including a juvenile, inside a moving bus. * Dec 17: Bus driver Ram Singh and two other accused arrested. * Dec 18: Protests over the incident, crowds clash with police in central Delhi. Fourth accused arrested.

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* Dec 19: Two accused brought before a Delhi court. Accused Vinay tells court "hang me". * Dec 21: Fifth accused, who was 17-and-half years old at the time of the crime, arrested from Anand Vihar in east Delhi while he was boarding a bus to flee to his hometown in Uttar Pradesh. Sixth accused Akshay Kumar Singh nabbed from Bihar. * Dec 22: Gang rape victim records statement before a sub-divisional magistrate. * Dec 23: Fast track court set up by the Delhi High Court. * Dec 24: The government announces setting up of a committee to suggest amendments to laws for speedy trials and enhanced punishment for criminals in rape cases. * Dec 27: The victim airlifted to Singapore for treatment. * Dec 29: She succumbs to her injuries at a Singapore hospital. * Dec 30: The body of the gang rape victim flown back to Delhi, cremated. * Jan 3, 2013: A case of rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence, and attempted murder filed against all the five accused in the case. * Jan 7: Court orders in-camera trial. * Jan 28: Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) declares that one of the accused is a minor. * Feb 2: Fast track court paves the way for trial and charges five men for murder, gang rape and other offences. * Feb 3: The Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013, issued. The relevant bill passed by the Lok Sabha March 19 and the Rajya Sabha March 21, making laws more stringent. * Feb 5: Trial begins in the case and court records statements of accused. * March 11: Accused Ram Singh found hanging in his Tihar jail cell. * May 17: Victim's mother appears as a prosecution witness before the trial court and says "give justice to my daughter". * June 14: Juvenile accused turns 18 in custody. Age determined based on school certificate. * July 11: Juvenile Justice Board in New Delhi defers verdict on the minor accused to July 25. * July 25: Juvenile Justice Board defers verdict on minor accused till Aug 5. * Aug 22: The Supreme Court allowed the juvenile board to go ahead with pronouncing its verdict. * Aug 31: Juvenile Justice Board sentences the minor accused to a three-year stay in a special home. * Sep 3: Delhi court reserves its order. * Sep 10: All the four accused Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh held guilty on all counts. Court to pronounce quantum of punishment Sep 11. (With inouts from IANS)

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