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Main accused in Delhi gang-rape case commits suicide in Tihar Jail
Monday March 11, 2013 08:36:31 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The main accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape of a 23-year-old has
committed suicide in Delhi's Tihar Jail Monday morning, police
said.
According to a police official, Ram Singh, 33, the prime accused
in the case committed suicide around 5.00 a.m. in ward no. 5 of
Jail No.3 in Tihar jail.
"An inquiry has been ordered into the suicide incident to
ascertain how Ram Singh committed suicide in the high security
Tihar Jail," said G. Sudhakar, DIG (Prisons), Tihar Jail .
Singh, who had been charged in 13 cases in connection with the Dec
16 incident, had been facing day-to-day trial in a district court.
He was supposed to be taken to the court Monday.
He had confessed to the crime, police said.
Singh was rushed to Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital where he was
declared dead.
On Dec 16, 2012, a trainee phyisotherapist was allegedly brutally
gang-raped by Ram Singh and his five associates in a moving bus in
the national capital.
She died of her injuries in a Singapore hospital two weeks later.
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