India gang rape: 'The cruelty I saw should not be seen ever'

Loved ones grieve over a 23-year-old Indian medical student who died from injuries inflicted during a Dec. 16 gang rape on a New Delhi bus. /Reuters image via itv.com

The Indian government has apparently been shamed into acting quickly in last month's fatal gang-rape attack on a New Delhi medical student and her boyfriend. Five men are facing murder charges in the Dec. 16 attack, and prosecutors say blood found on the suspects' clothing matches DNA from the victims.

On Jan. 6, AFP reported: "It normally takes months for the prosecution to assemble such a case, but the legal proceedings are getting underway barely a week after the 23-year-old medical student died of her injuries in a Singapore hospital."

The gang-rape victim's boyfriend told AFP that witnesses did nothing to help the couple for 30 minutes after their naked bodies were thrown from the bus on which the attack occurred. "The cruelty I saw should not be seen ever," the 28-year-old man said.

The suspects, who are also accused of kidnapping and robbery, face their first court hearing Jan. 7.