Singh said he had asked Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to “ensure that (the) culprits are brought to justice and such cases do not recur”, according to the Press Trust of India
Shinde announced in parliament that there would be a crackdown on buses having tinted glass and heavy curtains – measures that should already be in force.
Congress’s Gandhi who is India’s most powerful politician, described the attack as a source of shame for the capital after she paid a visit Tuesday to the hospital where the brutalised victim is being treated.
“Such violence and criminality needs not only to be condemned, it calls for a concerted effort to fight it,” Gandhi said in a letter to Dikshit.
Hospital doctors have been shocked by the extent of the rape victims’ injuries. “They cannot be described in words,” a surgeon who did not want to be named told AFP.
The rape took place over a period of more than 40 minutes on Sunday in a bus which had stopped to pick up the two victims who had spent the evening at a cinema.
“They began molesting the girl and her companion bravely fought back trying to save her but these men attacked him with an iron rod,” police commissioner Neeraj Kumar said on Tuesday.
“The victim was dragged to the rear of the bus and brutally beaten and raped.”
Three of the suspects appeared before a city magistrate on Wednesday where a police request for a custody extension was granted.
Kumar demanded the death penalty for people convicted of rape, a crime that currently carries a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison.
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