The 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi, and the subsequent trials of five men for her murder, transfixed India for most of a year, prompting passionate discussions about women’s safety in this rapidly urbanizing country.

A new documentary, which includes an interview with one of the men who raped and brutalized the woman aboard a private bus, has reignited passions about the case.

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    A protest condemning the rape of 23-year-old woman in New Delhi in 2012. Credit Tsering Topgyal/Associated Press
    Dec. 18, 2012
    Indians Outraged Over Rape on Bus in New Delhi

    The brutality of the New Delhi rape raises the ire of Indians who fear that sexual assault against women happens with disturbing regularity, especially in the capital. In one highly publicized case in September 2012, a 16-year-old girl in the neighboring state of Haryana was raped repeatedly by a group of eight men, perhaps more, who recorded the assault on their cellphones and threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

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    Indian protesters held candles during a rally in New Delhi. Credit Saurabh Das/Associated Press
    Dec. 29, 2012
    Six Charged With Murder in India After Rape Victim’s Death

    The suspects are accused of taking their victim to the back of a private bus in New Delhi, raping her, then damaging her internal organs with an iron rod. She died two weeks later of her injuries. Her death prompted mass protests in India.

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    Badri Nath Singh and his son Gaurav in Medawara Kalan, the village Mr. Singh left 30 years ago and where he recently returned for funeral rites for his daughter, who died from injuries received during a rape. Credit The New York Times
    Jan. 11, 2013
    For India Rape Victim’s Family, Many Layers of Loss

    The victim of the Dec. 16, 2012, gang rape becomes a symbol of all that is wrong with how India treats its women and girls. But before her death, she had been an example of how far ambition, hard work and parental love can remove one generation from the rural poverty that is the lot of most of India’s 1.2 billion people.

    • Video: For Father of Rape Victim, Shattered Dreams

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    Women marched outside a court in New Delhi after the sentencing of four men in a gang rape and murder in Dec. 2012. Credit Altaf Qadri/Associated Press
    Sept. 2013
    Many Doubt Death Sentences Will Stem India Sexual Attacks

    Four of the six men are convicted of raping and killing their victim and, a day later, prosecutors ask that they be put to death, calling the crime “a case of extreme depravity." (One of the defendants in the case hanged himself with his bedsheet in his prison cell before the trial and a juvenile defendant received a lighter sentence under the law.)

    Many in India express doubt that the sentence would do much to stem sexual attacks in the country.

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    Mukesh Singh Credit Associated Press
    March 3, 2015
    Man Convicted of Rape in Delhi Blames Victim

    One of the men on death row for the crime, Mukesh Singh, has told a British filmmaker that his victim invited the rape because she was out too late at night and that she would have lived if she had submitted to the assault.

    "A decent girl won’t roam around at 9 o’clock at night," he said in a documentary that was to be aired on the BBC. "A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy. Boy and girl are not equal. Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes. About 20 percent of girls are good."

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