Another kidnap-gang-rape reported in #India

Published: Jan. 21, 2013 at 9:09 AM

DELHI, India, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- India, reeling from the Dec. 16 gang-rape and death of a woman that caused outrage, had a report Monday of the abduction and gang-rape of another woman.
Local reports indicated a woman, a nurse, was dragged from a bus into a car in Punjab Sunday evening, gagged, injected with a drug and raped by three men before she was thrown from the vehicle.
She was hospitalized but her condition was not available, Press Trust of India reported.
A trial began Monday in Delhi for five men accused of gang-raping and killing a woman in the December case that brought international attention, and condemnation about how women are treated in India, and led to discussions in the country on sexual violence toward women.
"We can only try to change how women in this country are portrayed and treated," Meena Gudnarati, 27, told bikyamasr.com.
In the December incident, the men allegedly attacked the woman and her male companion on a private bus, robbed them and threw them onto the roadside. The woman was flown to Singapore for treatment. She died about two weeks later.
Her companion survived.
The Supreme Court agreed to take up a request Tuesday from one of the defendants to move the trial outside of Delhi, bikyamasr.com said.
"The sentiment has gone into the root of each home in Delhi by which even the judicial officers and the state are not spared ... ," the petition, filed through his advocate, said.
Because of all the reporting and statements made by political and judicial figures, "[the] judiciary is under pressure to work against the petitioner," the document said.
A sixth suspect, thought to be too young to be tried as an adult, faces proceedings in a juvenile court.