It seems almost unthinkable for something like this to happen. A 23 year old woman was captured, beaten, gang raped for almost an hour then tossed from a moving bus in New Delhi, India. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh move? To ban gathering of more than 5 people at any time. In a country where most rape go unpreported or unpresecuted, the number of outraged citizen grows. Protestors, mostly college students and housewives, poured into the city's center by the thousands demanding better policing and more security for women.
Though police tried keeping the protestors back by using tear gas and batons, they were heard screaming "Down with Delhi police!" while hurling bottles and other objects. Others hollered "Down with Sonia Gandhi!" Sonia Gandhi is chief of the ruling Congress party.
Since the rape, officials has promised more and better policing, from more buses at nights to swift prosecutions of those accused of rape and more severe punishment for those found guilty. Still, protestors' numbers grew to several thousand shows they do not believe in these promises.
The victim is still in the hospital in critical condition.
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