The horrific attack on
the 23-year-old woman in New Delhi prompted protests over the country's
treatment of women and handling of sexual attacks. It also stirred
worldwide outrage.
The suspects will appear
in the Metropolitan Magistrates' Court court in the southern New Delhi
district of Saket, the court said, according to CNN affiliate IBN.
That court is expected to
transfer the case to a so-called "fast-track" court, several of which
have been set up to expedite cases in a justice system bogged down by
red tape.
Charges of murder, rape
and kidnapping were filed against five of the accused men on Thursday.
If convicted, they could receive the death penalty.
A juvenile court will
take up the matter of determining
the age of a sixth suspect in the
attack, who claims to be 17 and therefore not old enough to be tried as
an adult, IBN reported.
The female victim of the
attack, whose name has not been released, died late last month in a
Singapore hospital, where she received treatment after being airlifted
from New Delhi.
The men are accused of
assaulting her and her male companion on a bus in the Indian capital on
December 16, robbing them of their belongings before dumping them at the
side of a road.
The 28-year-old male
victim, who survived with a broken leg, said in an interview last week
with the news agency Agence France-Presse that he and his friend had
boarded the private bus to return home after seeing a movie.
But the driver of the bus made lewd remarks and five other men on board taunted the couple and locked the doors, the man said.
He said that he was
beaten with a stick while the men raped his 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.
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