Indian police were today preparing to file rape and murder charges against a group of men accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old university student on a bus in New Delhi.

A gang of men who raped a woman on a bus in New Delhi last month tried to run her over after the attack which left her fatally injured, reports said, citing a police account.

Indian politicians facing sexual assault charges may be suspended from office in the wake of the New Dehli bus rape scandal.

India's top court has refused to ban the The Da Vinci Code film, saying no country with Christianity as a dominant religion has taken such a step, a news report said today.