A fast-track court in New Delhi framed charges against the five men who brutally assaulted, murdered and gangraped a young woman in Delhi on 16th December, who died 13 days later inSingapore.

The charges have been framed under 13 sections of the IPC. The accused have been charged with murder, gangrape, destruction of evidence and criminal conspiracy. The trial in the case will begin on 5^thFebruary.

The hearing in the case had started on 21^st January at the fast-track court which was set up to try the case that had led to a nation-wide outrage against crimes against women.

The accused were formally charged in the Saket court 18 days after they gangraped and tortured the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern in a moving bus, causing multiple-organ failure that led to her death.