(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130124-india-rape-knives-4a.photoblog600.jpg)Divyakant Solanki / EPAAn Indian woman holds up a kinfe that was distributed by the Shiv Sena party in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday. The knives were handed out to raise awareness of the need to protect and empower the country's women, according to media reports. By Ashok Sharma, The Associated PressNEW DELHI -- Five suspects, their faces covered with woolen caps, arrived in a special fast-track New Delhi court Thursday for the start of their trial for the rape and murder of a young woman on a bus last month in a case that triggered outrage (http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/27/16190597-police-try-to-temper-outrage-over-gang-rape?lite) and questions over the treatment of women in India's justice system.
Police were on alert outside the sprawling court complex in south New Delhi as the suspects arrived. Inside the court, about 30 policemen blocked access to the room where the trial was to be held, while scores of journalists and curious onlookers crowded the hallway.
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