His face has lined overnight and he looks haggard, but he keeps a brave front before his family. The façade however shatters when he recalls his last meeting with his 23-year-old daughter, who was brutally gang-raped on a cold December night.

The 23-year-old woman was raped by five men and a juvenile in a private bus, and then she and her male friend were thrown on the road bloodied and without clothes after nearly an-hour long ordeal. The sheer brutality of the gang rape shocked the nation. File pic