Prayers, candle-light vigils and rallies as part of spontaneous protests continued to be held in a sombre atmosphere of grief in several cities amid demands for death sentence to the six accused. The protests went on even after dusk fell.
In Andhra Pradesh. College and school students took out protest marches and staged demonstrations in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kurnool and Warangal, among other towns.
Women's groups, youth associations and political parties organised protests and shouted slogans at various places. Scores of people, mostly students, held a candle-light vigil at Tank Bund in Hyderabad.
People across Chandigarh observed prayers in memory of the victim. Various political outfits, cutting across party-lines, also joined in the mourning and demanded that the guilty be given the severest of the punishments.
In Bangalore, protesters staged a march that culminated in Town Hall.
Mumbai Pradesh Youth Congress organised candle light marches at Azad Maidan and suburban Jogeshwari to pay homage to the 23-year-old girl who died yesterday.
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The youth wing has demanded capital punishment to the perpetrators of the crime, saying they will send a letter to AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi to raise this demand in Lok Sabha.
Several people in Garhwal region in Uttarakhand poured out of their homes and held marches. The victim studied at an institute in Dehradun before moving to Delhi for internship.
Processions were taken out at Kotdwara, Pauri and Srinagar and several villages to demand speedy punishment for the rapists.
At Kotdwara, hundreds of girls held a march. Several businessmen and political activists also joined the procession.
Students of Garhwal University in Srinagar(U'khand) marched to Gola Park where they held a condolence meeting.
The district headquarters of Pauri saw a gathering of people and theatre artistes at the Main Bazar.