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Singapore: The 23-year-old medical student whose savage gang-rape on a moving bus in Delhi struck the very core of India died in a hospital in Singapore today. Doctors said she died of severe organ failure.
Her parents were by her side.
For 12 days, she fought for her life with a grit that astounded her doctors.
She endured three major surgeries, brain injury and a cardiac arrest at a Delhi hospital before experts decided to move her in an air ambulance to Singapore, where she was treated at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
After the monstrous attack on her on December 16, a grid of anger and grief fastened cities across India.
Demonstrators marched every day, demanding a swift trial for the six men arrested for the heinous attack, as well as stricter anti-rape laws and more safety for women.
In messages that she scribbled for her family while on life support systems, she reportedly asked if the six men who had damaged her so badly that her intestines had to be removed had been caught and punished.
Their trial is likely to begin on January 3; the government has promised daily hearings to ensure a verdict is delivered quickly.
Days before she was flown to Singapore, she shared the details of her attack with two different judges. Her testimony was not video-taped but will be used in the trial.
On December 16, the student watched The Life of Pi at a South Delhi mall with a male friend who offered to escort her home.
They boarded a private bus - the sort used so often by commuters in a city where public transport is inadequate and unreliable.
It would later turn out that the bus, used to ferry children to school, had been taken out by the driver and his friends to make some money from moonlighting.
The six drunk men on board began harassing the student. They beat her friend with an iron rod. When she tried to stop them, they turned on her with barbarous force, hitting her with the rod before taking turns to rape her.
The bus kept circling a 31-kilometre stretch in South Delhi, its tinted windows concealing the savagery within as it rolled unstopped through a series of police checkpoints.
Almost an hour later, the couple was thrown from the bus, battered and bleeding; a passer-by phoned the police for help.
With Delhi as the epicentre, the protests scaled up quickly. The government failed to gauge the extent of the country's fury, or its need for reassurance. Not one representative met the protesters.
Last weekend, the police clashed with thousands of demonstrators in Delhi. An injured constable collapsed; he died in hospital on December 25.
The government has promised to amend criminal laws to include the death penalty for extreme cases of sexual assault.
In Delhi, five fast-track courts will start functioning in January with daily hearings for all rape cases. A burst of measures to make public transport safer at night for women are being debuted.
The 23-year-old had persuaded her parents to sell their small piece of land in Uttar Pradesh so she could move to Delhi to study medicine. Since then, they said recently, their meals are very often rotis with namak (bread with salt). Their two sons are studying.
Their daughter became India's Daughter.
Delhi gang-rape survivor 'Amanat' dies | NDTV.com
Her parents were by her side.
For 12 days, she fought for her life with a grit that astounded her doctors.
She endured three major surgeries, brain injury and a cardiac arrest at a Delhi hospital before experts decided to move her in an air ambulance to Singapore, where she was treated at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
After the monstrous attack on her on December 16, a grid of anger and grief fastened cities across India.
Demonstrators marched every day, demanding a swift trial for the six men arrested for the heinous attack, as well as stricter anti-rape laws and more safety for women.
In messages that she scribbled for her family while on life support systems, she reportedly asked if the six men who had damaged her so badly that her intestines had to be removed had been caught and punished.
Their trial is likely to begin on January 3; the government has promised daily hearings to ensure a verdict is delivered quickly.
Days before she was flown to Singapore, she shared the details of her attack with two different judges. Her testimony was not video-taped but will be used in the trial.
On December 16, the student watched The Life of Pi at a South Delhi mall with a male friend who offered to escort her home.
They boarded a private bus - the sort used so often by commuters in a city where public transport is inadequate and unreliable.
It would later turn out that the bus, used to ferry children to school, had been taken out by the driver and his friends to make some money from moonlighting.
The six drunk men on board began harassing the student. They beat her friend with an iron rod. When she tried to stop them, they turned on her with barbarous force, hitting her with the rod before taking turns to rape her.
The bus kept circling a 31-kilometre stretch in South Delhi, its tinted windows concealing the savagery within as it rolled unstopped through a series of police checkpoints.
Almost an hour later, the couple was thrown from the bus, battered and bleeding; a passer-by phoned the police for help.
With Delhi as the epicentre, the protests scaled up quickly. The government failed to gauge the extent of the country's fury, or its need for reassurance. Not one representative met the protesters.
Last weekend, the police clashed with thousands of demonstrators in Delhi. An injured constable collapsed; he died in hospital on December 25.
The government has promised to amend criminal laws to include the death penalty for extreme cases of sexual assault.
In Delhi, five fast-track courts will start functioning in January with daily hearings for all rape cases. A burst of measures to make public transport safer at night for women are being debuted.
The 23-year-old had persuaded her parents to sell their small piece of land in Uttar Pradesh so she could move to Delhi to study medicine. Since then, they said recently, their meals are very often rotis with namak (bread with salt). Their two sons are studying.
Their daughter became India's Daughter.
Delhi gang-rape survivor 'Amanat' dies | NDTV.com
