In addition to rape, kidnap and robbery, they face a murder charge and possibly the death penalty after the 23-year-old victim died last weekend from her injuries, including internal wounds caused by an iron bar. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The victim's friend, who witnessed the attack, speaks to Zee News 
 
 The friend of a woman who died after being raped on a bus in Delhi has given his first interview since the incident. Speaking to the Hindi-language Zee News channel, he said it took 90 minutes for the injured pair to reach hospital because passers-by ignored their pleas for help, and police were late to arrive and then needlessly delayed. But instead of taking us to a nearby hospital, they [police] took us to a hospital that was far away," he said. A senior officer from the area where they were found, Vivek Gogia, told a press conference that computer logs showed the police were on the scene six minutes after receiving a distress call and the couple were in hospital 28 minutes later. Separately, the police filed a case against Zee News because the interview, which showed the boyfriend's face unobscured, had illegally disclosed the identity of a rape victim. While faith in the police force is already low -- they are widely pilloried as corrupt, insensitive to complaints from women and understaffed -- the revelation that bystanders failed to help the injured couple angered some Delhi residents. Aggarwal had been expected to transfer the case to a separate fast-track court set up specifically to deal with it. "I was not very confident about getting into the bus but my friend was running late, so we got into it. He said that the driver of the bus and his accomplices allegedly made lewd remarks before stopping the vehicle, which had tinted windows, and locking the doors.
– The 28-year-old boyfriend of the gang-rape victim in India has given his first interviews after the attack, and he says both he and his girlfriend tried and failed to fight off their six attackers: "We tried to resist them. Even my friend fought with them; she tried to save me," he tells Zee News, in a report picked up by the BBC. "She tried to dial the police control room number 100, but the accused snatched her mobile away." The still-unidentified boyfriend suffered a fractured leg and other injuries, reports the AFP, which has an interview of its own. He recounts how they boarded a private bus with tinted windows outside a movie theater, even though he had his doubts. He quickly asked the driver to stop, but by then the assailants had locked the doors. In the interview, he criticized the initial police response as insensitive, along with what he called too-slow care at the public hospital that treated them. "What can I say? The cruelty I saw should not be seen ever. I tried to fight against the men, but later I begged them again and again to leave her." "I was not very confident about getting into the bus, but my friend was running late, so we got into it. This was the biggest mistake I made and after that everything went out of control." "They hit me with a small stick and dragged my friend to a seat near the driver's cabin." Then, the "driver and the other men raped my friend and hit her in the worst possible ways in the most private parts of her body." They were thrown from the bus after about an hour, and the boyfriend says some passersby did nothing to help.