Delhi gang-rape verdict: In a village, a mother hopes someday her son will return
In Delhi, the first verdict was delivered on Saturday in the gang-rape of a medical student on a moving bus in December, a crime that shook India and forced the introduction of tough new laws to punish sexual offenders. A juvenile court found one of the six accused of murder and gang-rape guilty. He was 17 when the woman and her boyfriend were beaten repeatedly with an iron rod before she was raped and violated so brutally that she died of her injuries two weeks later. The police had described him as "an equal participant" in the attack; the student's family, which was present when the judgement was delivered, said he should be hanged.
