NEW DELHI — For 25 minutes, they lay by the road naked and crying for help. Passing drivers slowed down, looked at them, but did not stop.

The 23-year-old woman who was gang-raped and beaten inside a moving bus last month had been thrown out onto the street to die, along with her male friend. But even when police finally arrived, they wasted more than 20 minutes arguing about who had jurisdiction over the crime before even bothering to cover the couple with a blanket against onlookers’ stares, the friend of the young student said on Indian television Friday.

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