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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm after violent protests erupted in New Delhi over the weekend. The WSJ's R. Jai Krishna has more from the scene of the demonstrations. 
  
 NEW DELHI—Indian police on Monday cordoned off large parts of central New Delhi and shut down public transport in an attempt to prevent further demonstrations after a weekend of protests over the aggravated rape of a woman in the city earlier this month. 
  
 India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in a televised appearance Monday, appealed for calm. On Saturday and Sunday, police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters, many of them students. On Sunday, protesters set fire to barricades and overturned a government vehicle. There were about 85 injuries, including police and protesters, according to police officials. A number of protesters were detained and later released, police said. 
  
 "I feel deeply sad at the turn of events leading to clashes between protesters and police forces. Anger at this crime is justified but violence will serve no purpose," Mr. Singh said. "As a father of three daughters myself, I feel as strongly about this as each one of you." 
  
 Enlarge Image Close Tengku Bahar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Demonstrators set fire to wooden barricades during a protest calling for better safety for women following the rape of a student last week, in front the India Gate monument in New Delhi, Sunday. 
  
 On Monday, authorities kept in place an emergency law banning groups of more than four people congregating in public areas that it had invoked on Sunday. But protesters gathered anyway at a commercial area just north of India Gate, the zone of government offices and the nation's Parliament that now is totally cordoned off to people. 
  
 View Slideshow Saurabh Das/Associated Press An injured man was dragged away from the North Block, near the Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi, Dec. 22. 
  
 "Police laugh at women and girls who go to them to complain against rape, molestation and harassment and say 'What is new in this,'" said Kamna Kakkar, a second-year medical student, who joined the protests Monday. "This is an opportunity for us to force the government to make stronger laws. We will protest as long as possible." 
  
 The decision to shut down access to India Gate caused traffic snarls across the city as commuters were forced to find alternative routes. Police said protests would be allowed in specific protest areas, including the Ramlila Grounds, an area of grassland a few kilometers north of the political hub of New Delhi. So far Monday there had been no arrests, police official said. 
  
 The rape on Dec. 16 of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student, who has not been named, has sparked calls for stricter sentencing of rapists and better policing of Delhi's streets. The rape occurred on a moving chartered bus that was illegally picking up public passengers. Six men, including the bus driver, have been charged for rape and kidnapping but their trial is yet to begin. 
  
 The six men are accused of gang-raping the woman for nearly an hour, police said. They also allegedly beat her and a male companion with metal rods as the bus continued to circle the city's roads for hours, even crossing police checkpoints. The couple was later stripped of their clothing and thrown out of the bus near a highway on the periphery of Delhi, police said. 
  
 The rape was so savage that the woman had to have large amounts of her intestines removed, her doctors said. She is still on life-support systems at a Delhi hospital, her doctors said Sunday. 
  
 Activists say the current criminal law governing rape is outdated as it does not deal with homosexual rape or acts like oral sex and is unclear about maximum sentencing. Others have complained about the more than 900 rape cases pending decisions in Delhi's court system. 
  
 Many of those who have taken to Delhi's streets in recent days are students bearing signs calling for protection of women's rights. This year, some politicians have said a majority of rape cases actually involve consensual sex. Others have suggested reducing the legal age of marriage - currently 18 for women and 21 for men – as a way of dealing with the problem. 
  
 These comments have caused anger among activists who say they show a broader culture in which rape is not taken seriously. Many rape cases, they say, are not even reported due to pressure from families not to talk about them. 
  
 Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde told television channels that students have a right to protest but "calmly, quietly and silently." Mr. Shinde declined a request from Sushma Swaraj, leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in the lower house of Parliament, to convene a special session of lawmakers to discuss the matter. "As and when it is required, I will take the assistance of all political parties," he said. 
  
 The rape victim's father, whose identity was not given, also appealed for calm. "My daughter is strong, she will survive. She is conscious now," he told local television news channels, his face blurred. 
  
 In a separate statement Monday, the government said it has decided to form a panel of three legal experts, headed by former chief justice of India, J.S. Verma, to look into possible amendments to criminal laws to allow for quicker trials of alleged rapists and more severe punishments. The committee will submit its report within 30 days, it added. 
  
 —Vibhuti Agarwal, Romit Guha and Saptarishi Dutta contributed to this article. ||||| NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian authorities throttled movement in the heart of the capital on Monday, shutting roads and railway stations in a bid to restore law and order after police fought pitched battles with protesters enraged by the gang rape of a young woman. 
  
 In an unusual televised address, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for calm following the weekend clashes in New Delhi and vowed to punish the rapists for their "monstrous" crime. 
  
 Singh's government, often accused by critics of being out of touch with the aspirations of many Indians, has been caught off-guard by the depth of the popular outrage as protests have snowballed and spread to other cities. India is seen as one of the most unsafe places in the world to be a woman. 
  
 Instead of channeling the outrage, the government has found itself on the defensive over the use of force against the protesters and complaints that it has done little in its eight years in power to create a safer environment for women. 
  
 The protests have been the biggest in the capital since 2011 demonstrations against corruption that rocked the government. 
  
 "People are not reacting to just one rape case. They are reacting to the general malaise, the frustration with the leadership. There is a feeling that the leadership is completely disconnected," said political analyst Neerja Chowdhury. 
  
 Police barricaded roads leading to India Gate, an imposing Arc de Triomphe-style war memorial in the center of the city, that has become a hub of the protests by mostly college students. Many metro rail stations in fog-shrouded Delhi were also closed, crippling movement around the city of 16 million. 
  
 The protests overshadowed an official visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin and disrupted his schedule. 
  
 The 23-year-old victim of the December 16 attack, who was beaten, raped for almost an hour and thrown out of a moving bus in New Delhi, was still in a critical condition on respiratory support, doctors said. 
  
 In the weekend spasm of violent protests, police use batons, teargas and water cannon against demonstrators around the capital. Protests and candle-light vigils have also taken place in other Indian cities but they have been more peaceful. 
  
 "I appeal to all concerned citizens to maintain peace and calm. I assure you we will make all possible efforts to ensure security and safety of women in this country," Singh said in his televised address to the nation. 
  
 Singh has been under fire for remaining largely silent since the rape. He issued a statement for the first time on Sunday, a week after the crime. Sonia Gandhi, chief of the ruling Congress Party, has met some of the protesters to hear their demands. 
  
 Comments by political commentators, sociologists and protesters suggest the rape has tapped into a deep well of frustration that many Indians have over what they see as weak governance and poor leadership on social and economic issues. 
  
 "There is a huge amount of anger. People are deeply upset that despite so many incidents there has not been much response from the state and the government," said social activist Ranjana Kumari, director of the Centre for Social Research in Delhi. 
  
 SOCIAL MEDIA SITES DRIVE PROTESTS 
  
 New Delhi has the highest number of sex crimes among India's major cities, with a rape reported on average every 18 hours, according to police figures. A global poll by Thomson Reuters Foundation in June found that India was the worst place in the world to be a woman because of high rates of infanticide, child marriage and slavery. 
  
 Since last week's rape, the authorities have promised better police patrolling to ensure safety for women returning from work and entertainment districts, more buses at night, and fast-track courts for swift verdicts on cases of rape and sexual assaults. 
  
 But protesters view those measures as inadequate and are looking for the government to take a firmer stand on sexual assaults countrywide, most of which go unreported. 
  
 Reported rape cases in India have increased by 9.2 percent to 24,206 cases in 2011 from 22,172 the previous year, according to the latest figures from the National Crime Record Bureau, 
  
 "This is not about that one rape," said aspiring fashion designer Shruti Sharma, 24, at a protest in Delhi on Monday. 
  
 "This is about how crime is rampant in our cities. We are angry at the government for not ensuring the safety of its citizens. The judiciary is slow. Cases take too long." 
  
 Opposition political parties, normally quick to exploit the government's vulnerabilities, have largely been sidelined in the protests, which have mostly been organized through social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. 
  
 The protesters come from all walks of life but many are young and middle class. Political commentators see their involvement as evidence of growing frustration with the government's focus on poor and rural voters and a failure to pass on the benefits of a decade of rapid economic growth. 
  
 So far, however, the protesters' focus has been on the rape case rather than on other grievances. 
  
 (Additional reporting By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Satarupa Bhattacharjya in New Delhi, Sujoy Dhar in Kolkata, Sharat Pradhan in Lucknow, Ashok Pahalwan in Jammu and , writing by Ross Colvin,; Editing by John Chalmers and Robert Birsel) |||||
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The situation continues to be a tense one in New Delhi, where police today closed off roads leading to the India Gate and ceased public transportation in an effort to stamp out the protests that have rocked the city following the gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman. India's Prime Minister also joined the plea for calm, making what Reuters calls an "unusual" televised appearance today. "Anger at this crime is justified but violence will serve no purpose," he said. "As a father of three daughters myself, I feel as strongly about this as each one of you." The Wall Street Journal reports that an emergency law announced yesterday continues today, and outlaws groups of more than four people from gathering in public. Still, it notes that protestors assembled anyway, just north of the India Gate, the city-center area that's home to government offices and has been made inaccessible to citizens. "Police laugh at women and girls who go to them to complain against rape, molestation, and harassment and say 'What is new in this,'" said one protestor today. "We will protest as long as possible." The victim remains on life support.