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Akshay Thakur, one of the four men sentenced to death for raping and torturing a young woman on a moving bus, gets down from a police van as he is produced at high court in New Delhi. (Tsering Topgyal, AP)
Akshay Thakur, one of the four men sentenced to death for raping and torturing a young woman on a moving bus, gets down from a police van as he is produced at high court in New Delhi. (Tsering Topgyal, AP)

New Delhi - One of the men convicted of raping and killing a woman in a brutal 2012 gang attack on a New Delhi bus said in a TV documentary that if their victim had not fought back she would not have been killed.

Instead, the 23-year-old woman should have remained silent, said Mukesh Singh, who was driving the bus for much of the time that the woman was being attacked.

"Then they would have dropped her off after 'doing her,'" he said in a documentary being released next week. The filmmakers released transcripts of the interview, which was recorded in 2013, on Tuesday.

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