India Mourns Rape Victim as Police Ready Murder Charges
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Indians gathered in their thousands in protests and candlelit vigils to mark the death in a Singapore hospital of a woman beaten and gang raped in New Delhi, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led appeals for calm.
Delhi police will press murder charges against the six men accused of raping the 23-year-old woman and beating her with iron bars in the back of the bus on Dec. 16, spokesman Rajan Bhagat said by phone yesterday. The men may appear in court to be charged as soon as Jan. 3, he said.