New Delhi: A day after the alleged suicide by Ram Singh, prime accused in last December’s horrific gang-rape, police said yesterday that his death would not affect the case and there was enough evidence to convict the other four accused men.
Police said that Ram Singh had died due to hanging. He was the driver of the bus in which the 23-year-old woman was brutally raped and beaten on
Decemebr 16 last year. She died of her injuries.
A doctor who took part in the autopsy said the 35-year-old had no external injury marks on his body.
Rattled by the death, authorities in Tihar have also placed the four other accused on “special watch”.
“They are on special watch and an officer has been deputed to keep a tab on their activities,” a jail official told IANS requesting anonymity.
Ram Singh, who reportedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail on Monday morning, was one of the six accused in the rape of the young woman in a moving bus. A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into his death. His family alleges murder.
Ram Singh was arrested on December 17, 2012, a day after the brutal gang-rape that ignited protests all across India.
“Ram Singh’s death has no relation with the further proceeding in the case,” said an investigation officer.
A day-to-day hearing into the case is going on at a fast-track court here.
The other accused facing trial are Ram Singh’s brother Mukesh, 26, fruit seller Pawan Gupta, 19, gym instructor Vinay Sharma, 20, and bus cleaner Akshay Thakur, 29. All are inside Tihar Jail. A panel of three doctors conducted Ram Singh’s post-mortem at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. IANS
