Delhi gang-rape accused commits suicide

March 10, 2013 | Accident / Crime / Disaster | Written by

New Delhi, March 11: The main accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape case has committed suicide in Delhi’s Tihar Jail Monday morning, police said.

According to a police official, Ram Singh, the main accused in the case committed suicide around 5.00 a.m. in ward no. 5 of Jail No.3 in Tihar jail.

He was rushed to Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital where he was declared dead.

On Dec 16, 2012, a 23-year-old trainee phyisotherapist was brutally gang-raped by Ram Singh and his five associates in a moving bus in the capital city.

She died of her injuries in a Singapore hospital two weeks later.

IANS