The male friend of a woman who died after being gang-raped and sexually assaulted with an iron rod in New Delhi described the attack for the first time publicly in an interview broadcast Friday.
The details of the vicious attack and its aftermath provided by the man paint a bleak picture of India’s capital city, one in which the assailants had laid a carefully planned trap and neither citizens nor police officials rushed to help a naked, bleeding couple who were left on the side of a highway.
From the time the two were thrown from the moving bus in which they were attacked until they were taken to a hospital, two hours had elapsed, he told Zee News, an Indian news channel.
“We were without clothes,” he said. “We tried to stop people passing by.” After 25 minutes someone called the police, he said. Then, after three police vans arrived, officers argued over who had jurisdiction over the case, he said. He had to carry his friend into the police vehicle, he said, after the police refused because she was bleeding too much.
The man, whose name was disclosed in early reports from Zee News but deleted in later reports, said the police did not take them to the closest hospital, but one farther away. “Even at the hospital we were made to wait and I had to literally beg for clothes,” he said.
The New Delhi police said they planned to file a case against Zee News for broadcasting the interview. The case will be filed under Section 228 (A) of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with the disclosure of identity of victims of certain crimes, including rape.
In the interview, the man said that the attack itself was well planned. “Apart from the driver and helper, others behaved like they were passengers,” he said, until after the couple paid the 20-rupee fee and sat down. “Then they started teasing my friend and the same led to a brawl,” he said. “I beat three of them up but then the rest brought an iron rod and hit me. Before I fell unconscious, they took my friend away.”
Read the interview with Zee News here.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: January 5, 2013
An earlier version of this post said Delhi Police will sue Zee News, rather than file a case against them.
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