This young lady was coming home from attending college with her fiancee. He was also beaten within an inch of his life but is surviving. I think she fell into the 'respectable' category, what ever that is. 
My hat's off to him for offering to defend these scum, after all everyone should be able to have a trial. Many solicitor-pun intended- in New Delhi refused to even take the case. But he is doing his clients no good by running off his mouth with statements of this sort.
This incident has provoked a sea change in public opinion unlike anything I have seen in a while. It is very much like a light bulb clicked on. The youth have been pressing for change but this really upset older people in 'traditional' India. Rape is bad enough but being brutally beaten to death is beyond the pale, even for 'traditional' India. Another thing that will come up in this trial is that one of the accused and one of the most brutal assailant is 17 1/2 years old. The most he can be sentenced is 3 years as 18 is the age of majority in the eyes of the law in India. There is a call for a review of those laws because of this, with a tried as an adult lowered to 16 in cases such as this. I can see this changing also.
This genie is not going back in the bottle.
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