( CNN ) -- New details emerged Friday of the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi from a male friend , who detailed the incident as horrific and their subsequent treatment as callous . The 28-year-old man , who asked not to be identified , said he and the young woman had watched a movie December 16 , and then boarded a private bus to return to her home in a New Delhi suburb . The driver made lewd remarks and five other men taunted the couple and locked the doors , he said in a telephone interview with Agence France-Presse from a town in Uttar Pradesh state . `` They hit me with a small stick and dragged my friend to a seat near the driver 's cabin , '' the man said . 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 . '' The driver used an iron bar in the attack , he told the news agency . The friend said he suffered a broken leg . `` 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 , '' he said . In an interview with Reuters , the man said their abductors drove the couple throughout the city for about two hours before dropping them below an overpass ; he was unable to stand and had no clothes . `` Three-wheeler taxis would slow down , take a look at us and move on , '' he said . `` So would cars and motorcycles . We got no help for nearly 20 or 25 minutes . '' When three police vehicles finally did show up , he said , `` they could n't decide among themselves which police precinct has jurisdiction . '' Throughout , his friend was bleeding profusely , he said . `` We need change in every area , '' the companion said . The attack , which resulted in the woman 's death on December 29 , has prompted widespread debate over the way the country handles sexual assaults and the treatment of women in India . Numerous protests have taken place and laws have been proposed . India 's interior minister has ordered New Delhi police stations to increase the number of women officers to facilitate the handling of complaints from women . Interior Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said Friday that each police station in Delhi should have 10 women constables and two women subinspectors . Indian rape debate : Why death penalty is no solution . `` We will be posting these women very soon , according to this order , by diverting staff from other places and making them available in Delhi , '' police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said . At present , women comprise 7 % of police forces , he said . Candidates will be recruited within four months , and training will take an additional nine months , he said . Bhagat denied that the directive was issued solely because of the rape , but said it is aimed at helping women . Read more : The perils of being a woman in India . `` We need overall more women in the police station as other women feel more comfortable with female officers , '' he said . `` If all women complaints are attended to promptly , situations like that of the gang-raped medical student may have been avoided . '' The interior minister said he is working with security officials to strengthen laws regarding rape and assault . In the state of Haryana , about 80 miles northwest of Delhi , officials plan to publicize the profiles of rapists . The state will publish the names , addresses and case numbers of convicted rapists on a website . `` In doing so , we hope to curb crime against women , '' said Laik Ram Dabbas , director of the state crime records bureau . The website could be active this month , Dabbas said . `` By making these names and profiles public , we think crime can be curbed , as in India people are sensitive to public embarrassment , '' Dabbas said . `` Once the public is aware of such people roaming around their area , they will become more careful . '' The men accused in the gang rape that led to the death of the 23-year-old Indian woman were charged Thursday in a New Delhi court with murder , rape and kidnapping . Read more : Focus on perpetrators , end culture of rape . Police submitted charges against five suspects before a fast-track court in Saket , a southern district of New Delhi , said Suman Nalwa , deputy police commissioner of a unit for women and children . 'She could have been me ' : Action urged after Delhi gang rape case . He said authorities were waiting for the outcome of a bone marrow test before deciding whether a sixth suspect in the attack will be charged as a juvenile or an adult . The results of the test , intended to determine the suspect 's age , should come soon , Nalwa said . The trial will begin this week once all the evidence is gathered , he said .
`` I begged them again and again to leave her , '' friend says of attackers . His companion died nearly two weeks later . The attack on the girl was captured by a security camera at an upscale mall in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which is home to many foreign embassies and embassies.