Lawyers for four men sentenced to death for raping and murdering a young woman on a New Delhi bus challenged the convictions and death sentences at a High Court hearing in India today.

As he recalls the attack that killed his best friend and left him grievously wounded, the young IT operator still can’t fathom the depravity they encountered after a night out at a Delhi shopping centre.

A fast-track court will issue a verdict next week in the trial of four men accused of the gang rape and murder of a woman on a moving bus in New Delhi last year.

Five men have gone on trial over the fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in Delhi as the victim’s father urged the fast-track court to deliver swift justice and sentence her attackers to death by hanging.

The New Dehli bus rape and murder trial will be held behind closed doors, a judge has ruled.