Ram Singh, the main accused in the Delhi gangrape case allegedly hanged himself at around 5am on early Monday morning in the cell he was being kept in Tihar jail, jail sources said.
He was the bus-driver in which the 23-year-old paramedical student was raped on December 16 last
"Yes, he is dead," a jail official, who also asked not to be named, said in the control room of New Delhi's Tihar Jail when asked about the suicide. "The case will continue. There is no reason for the case to suffer," said the officer.
A metropolitan magistrate will investigate Singh's death. Meanwhile, the post-mortem is yet to be conducted.
His body was rushed to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where he was declared dead.
Tihar jail authorities have ordered for an inquiry in the suicide too.
Singh's lawyer VK Anand told TV channels his client was satisfied with how his trial in the gangrape case was proceeding and had no reason to kill himself. "I doubt if this is a case of suicide," said Anand.
Singh was under guard in Tihar because of fears that he may kill himself or attacked by other prisoners.
Singh was to appear before a court on Monday in Saket, south Delhi, which is hearing the gangrape case.
The suicide of the main accused comes amidst the trial in the fast-track court.
"He knew he was going to die anyway because we had and still have such a strong case against him," the physiotherapist's 20-year-old brother told Reuters.
"I'm not very thrilled with the news that he killed himself because I wanted him to be hanged ... publicly. Him dying on his own terms seems unfair. But, oh well, one is down. Hopefully the rest will wait for their death sentence."
The 23-year-old, a trainee physiotherapist, was gangraped and brutally assaulted allegedly by six men in a moving bus in South Delhi on December 16 night.
Singh was arrested soon after the December 16 incident from near his home in RK Puram.
She later succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012 in Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore after battling for life for 13 days.
The rape was followed by outrage and massive protests across the country, following which a fast-track trial was ordered into the case.
Police had slapped murder charges, which has death penalty in rarest of rare cases, against the six accused and the trial was being conducted in Saket fast-track court in New Delhi.
He was the bus-driver in which the 23-year-old paramedical student was raped on December 16 last
"Yes, he is dead," a jail official, who also asked not to be named, said in the control room of New Delhi's Tihar Jail when asked about the suicide. "The case will continue. There is no reason for the case to suffer," said the officer.
A metropolitan magistrate will investigate Singh's death. Meanwhile, the post-mortem is yet to be conducted.
His body was rushed to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where he was declared dead.
Tihar jail authorities have ordered for an inquiry in the suicide too.
Singh's lawyer VK Anand told TV channels his client was satisfied with how his trial in the gangrape case was proceeding and had no reason to kill himself. "I doubt if this is a case of suicide," said Anand.
Singh was under guard in Tihar because of fears that he may kill himself or attacked by other prisoners.
Singh was to appear before a court on Monday in Saket, south Delhi, which is hearing the gangrape case.
The suicide of the main accused comes amidst the trial in the fast-track court.
"He knew he was going to die anyway because we had and still have such a strong case against him," the physiotherapist's 20-year-old brother told Reuters.
"I'm not very thrilled with the news that he killed himself because I wanted him to be hanged ... publicly. Him dying on his own terms seems unfair. But, oh well, one is down. Hopefully the rest will wait for their death sentence."
The 23-year-old, a trainee physiotherapist, was gangraped and brutally assaulted allegedly by six men in a moving bus in South Delhi on December 16 night.
Singh was arrested soon after the December 16 incident from near his home in RK Puram.
She later succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012 in Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore after battling for life for 13 days.
The rape was followed by outrage and massive protests across the country, following which a fast-track trial was ordered into the case.
Police had slapped murder charges, which has death penalty in rarest of rare cases, against the six accused and the trial was being conducted in Saket fast-track court in New Delhi.
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