NEW DELHI: India on Sunday marks 12 months since the death of a student savagely gang-raped on a Delhi bus—an episode that sparked nationwide protests—with candle-light vigils and prayers.

The 23-year-old physiotherapy student died on December 29 last year, nearly two weeks after being brutally attacked by a gang of six men on a moving bus as she returned home from the cinema with a male companion.

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