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We lay naked on road for 2 hours, no one stopped to help, says Damini's friend

New Delhi, Jan 5 : Breaking his silence for the first time since the horrific Dec 16 gang-rape, the victim's friend said he wished he could have saved the 23-year-old woman and blamed police for

IANS Updated on: January 05, 2013 17:00 IST
The woman who was gang-raped and severely beaten on a bus in New Delhi died Saturday at the hospital, after her ordeal galvanized Indians to demand greater protection from sexual violence that impacts thousands of women daily, in homes, streets and public transport, but which often goes unreported. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

"Three PCR (Police Control Room vans) came and they left. In the hospital, no one even thought of giving us a quilt," he added.



He told Zee that the three PCR vans arrived at the scene after about 45 minutes, but wasted time in deciding under which police station's jurisdiction the case fell.

He said nobody, including police, gave them clothes or called an ambulance. "They were just watching us," he said, adding that after repeated requests, someone gave him a part of a bed sheet to cover his friend.

"My friend was bleeding profusely. But instead of taking us to a nearby hospital, they (police) took us to a hospital that was far away."

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