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Indian gang rape survivor back home after a week in hospital

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BBC:

The survivor of a gang rape in the northern Indian state of Haryana has been discharged from hospital a week after her horrific assault, a police official told the BBC.

The 26-year-old mother-of-two was taken to hospital in Faridabad city on the morning of 30 December with serious head and facial injuries and several fractures.

Her sister said she was out visiting a friend and was waiting for transport just after midnight when two men in an ambulance offered her a lift. They drove her to a deserted place where they raped her and then threw her out of the speeding vehicle.

A police spokesman said they had acted swiftly and arrested the two men and seized the vehicle.

The woman was discharged by the hospital on Monday night following treatment and surgeries.

Senior police official Mukesh Kumar told the BBC that they have approached the court to allow her to visit the prison for an “identification parade”.

Once the court order comes, she would be asked to pick out the two suspects from a crowd of men.

The police said the crime took place on the intervening night of 29th and 30th December.

“The incident took place between 12.30 and 02:00. One stood outside the van and kept an eye on the surroundings while the other raped the woman inside the van,” Yashpal Yadav, public relations officer of Faridabad police, said.

Police had questioned the suspects, who were later produced in court and sent to prison, he added.

A doctor at the hospital where the survivor was treated had said that the woman was brought in “at around 05:30 on 30 December… she had a lot of injuries”.

Shalini Chopra, a social worker and an opposition politician, who spoke to the survivor after she was discharged from the hospital told the BBC that the woman was “better but still in pain”.

The case has provoked anger and outrage in India and drawn comparisons with the horrific gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi in December 2012.

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