Dead Body of Delhi Gang Rape Victim Damini arrives in India

The Dead Body of  New Delhi Sexual Abuse Victim (alias Damini, Nirbhaya or Amanat) arrived at New Delhi Airport at 4:30 AM in  a Special aircraft of Air India from Singapore.

The body was taken out of the airport in an ambulance of a private hospital through the Palm technical area.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was at Indira Gandhi International Airport for the arrival of the specially-chartered Air India plane when it touched down.

The body  was embalmed and placed in a special casket for being flown back to India, according to informed sources. The body was placed in a gold and yellow coffin. The parents and two younger brothers of the Girl have accompanied the body back home.

The girl, a physiotherapy student, was sexually abused and brutally assaulted allegedly by six men in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16 night.

While undergoing treatment at Safdarjung hospital, she was shifted to the Singapore hospital for further treatment.

The aircraft AIC-380A took off from Singapore at around 12:30 AM local time (10:00 PM IST Saturday), Indian High Commission officials said.

The girl breathed her last yesterday at 4:45 AM (2:15 AM IST).

On the chartered plane, sent by the Indian government, were her family members who have been in Singapore since the girl was brought to the hospital here in an extremely critical condition.

The victim, who underwent three surgeries, had damaged internal organs in the assault. She also suffered a cardiac arrest and brain injury.

Police have slapped murder charges, which has death penalty in rarest of rare cases, against the six accused and will file the chargesheet against them on January three.

Investigators said they will seek the harshest punishment for the culprits.

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