What has the wider reaction been?
At a police station on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Saturday, thousands of people gathered to protest, insisting the culprits must face the death penalty. Elsewhere in the country there were other protests and vigils for the victim - who cannot be named under Indian law. Police used sticks to push back protesters in Shadnagar on Hyderabad's outskirts In the community of Shamshabad in Hyderabad, where the victim lived, residents locked the main gate and held placards saying: "No Media, No Police, No Outsiders - No sympathy, only action, justice." People in Delhi held a vigil on Saturday Protests such as this one in Amritsar continued on Sunday Prominent politicians have also spoken out, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary of the main opposition Congress party. "Our mindsets have to be jolted into changing, into rejecting violence, into refusing to accept the abhorrent manner in which women are being brutalised on a daily basis," she said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not yet commented on the case, however. Young members of an NGO protested in Siliguri Three police officers have been suspended following allegations by the victim's family that they had not acted quickly enough when the victim was reported missing. Officers suggested she may have eloped, relatives told the National Commission for Women, a government body.What happened to the victim?
The woman had left home on her bike at about 18:00 local time (12:30 GMT) on Wednesday to go to a doctor's appointment. She called family later to say that she had a flat tyre, and a lorry driver had offered to help. She said she was waiting near a toll plaza. Efforts to contact her afterwards were unsuccessful, and her body was discovered under a flyover by a milkman early on Thursday morning. Under Indian law, a rape victim cannot be identified even after death, but on Friday the woman's name was the top Twitter trend in the country for several hours as tens of thousands of angry tweets demanded justice. Rape and sexual violence against women have been in focus in India since the December 2012 gang-rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in the capital, Delhi. But there has been no sign that anti-female violence is abating. According to the latest government crime figures, police registered 33,658 cases of rape in India in 2017 - an average of 92 every day.DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.
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