Summary Body of the gang-rape victim was flown back to New Delhi after her death in a Singapore hospital.
The body of a gang-rape victim arrived back in New Delhi on Sunday after her death from sickening injuries in a Singapore hospital as India was engulfed by a mass outpouring of grief and anger.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was at Indira Gandhi International Airport for the arrival of the specially-chartered plane when it touched down at around 4:15 am (2245 GMT), according to security sources and an AFP journalist at the scene.
A convoy carrying the gold-coloured coffin and the victim s parents then drove towards the Janakpuri district of Delhi where she had been living while studying for a degree in medicine. The area was sealed off to journalists.
The 23-year-old s body was repatriated barely three days after she was flown to a Singapore hospital in a desperate final bid to save her life.
Thousands of people took part in late-night candlelit vigils for the medical student who has been the focus of a wave of protests ever since she was savagely attacked by a gang of men on a bus two weeks ago.
As police said the six accused of murdering the unnamed woman could face the death penalty, Singh led appeals for calm to prevent a repeat of the sometimes violent protests that followed the December 16 assault.
Thousands took part in fresh demonstrations on Saturday but they passed off peacefully as mourners vowed the student s killing would serve as a tipping point for how the nation deals with violence against women.
Doctors who had been treating her at Singapore s Mount Elizabeth Hospital after she was airlifted there on Thursday were unable to prevent multiple organ failure and she died before dawn on Saturday.
No details of her funeral have been released.
Protesters who gathered in the Jantar Mantar thoroughfare in central Delhi, scene of the largest protest, said the death was a wake-up call for a country in denial about the levels of violence that women face.
The numbers swelled into the evening, with some 5,000 taking part in a candlelit vigil after nightfall despite near freezing temperatures.
Similar protests and vigils were held in other cities including Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.
