Indian woman identifies attackers after awaking from coma

A young Indian woman who spent 10 months in a coma after suffering a vicious attack that left her severely disabled has identified her alleged assailants in court, more than four years after the assault. Four men ambushed Dimple Patel, 27, as she returned to her home in western Gujarat state's main city of Ahmedabad from college in February 2010. They beat her with iron rods and abandoned her unconscious on a railway track. Even though she still cannot hear and has difficulty speaking and walking, she was able to identify her alleged attackers in court this week, her brother Dharmendra Patel said Thursday. ‘It was only after she came out of the coma that we came to know what happened and who attacked her,’ her brother said. Dharmendra alleges his wife's relatives assaulted his sister to get back at him after a row over money. ‘Though she couldn't speak complete sentences, she used gestures and words to give her version of events. Based on that, we lodged a complaint against her attackers,’ Dharmendra said, according to AFP.