But Brazilian media already are drawing parallels between this attack and the infamous gang rape of a young woman on a bus in India.
There have been calls for faster trials in India after the recent gang rape and death of a young woman on a Delhi bus.
Mr. Anand wasn't present Tuesday at the special fast-track court where proceedings resumed briefly for the four surviving men accused in the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in December.
Last year, a woman was raped on a moving bus in broad daylight in a widely publicized case, and the Rio subway has special women-only cars to help prevent such attacks.
The incident came four months after the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus sparked outrage across India about the treatment of women in the country.
The government has been under pressure to act since the woman was attacked on a bus while she was travelling home from a visit to the cinema on 16 December.
Police said the woman was on a number 41 bus in West Bromwich when four young men began talking to her and making "inappropriate comments".
In a poster for a new campaign by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, a woman sits alone with her iPhone on a dark city bus.
One day, on a bumpy bus ride, Maseena fell in with a young Bermudian woman.
We addressed the importance of installing security cameras at school gates, assuring a woman driver or conductor is on every school bus, and having clean, working toilets at schools so girls and boys are not forced to go outside to relieve themselves.
Fifty-eight years after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks became the first African-American woman to be honored with a full length statue in National Statuary Hall.
Delhi police chief Neeraj Kumar told a press conference on Tuesday that the woman and her friend had boarded the bus in the Munirka area of south Delhi.
Mr. Singh was one of five men accused of raping a 23-year-old woman after luring her and a male companion onto a bus in south Delhi on Dec. 16.
The young woman and her male friend were severely beaten with iron rods after boarding a bus on the night of Dec. 16.
When the unidentified woman died in a Singapore hospital early on Saturday, the victim of a savage rape on a moving bus in the capital, Delhi, it was time again, many said, to ask: why does India treat its women so badly?
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