New Delhi: An accused in December 16 gangrape case has been vomiting blood as his "food was being poisoned" over several weeks in Tihar Jail, his lawyer told a fast-track court on Wednesday, adding that he was critically ill.
Additional Sessions Judge directed Tihar Jail authorities to ensure that proper medical care is given to him.
The accused, Vinay Sharma, was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, where he was taken from Tihar Jail with high fever. He has not attended court proceedings since May 8 due to his health issues.
His counsel told the court that Sharma has been hospitalised and is in a "critical condition". He added that the accused was not getting proper treatment in hospital as the doctors were on strike....
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12:46 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: In a twist to the December 16 gangrape case, sources say that the records of the bus in which the incident took place have been destroyed. However, sources said that the Crime Branch is checking if this is a periodic cleansing undertaken by the transport department. Sources add that the Crime Branch has some evidence against the Transport Department officials who gave clearance to the bus owner Dinesh...
12:08 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: With the trial in the Delhi gangrape case "almost 90 per cent complete", the court verdict is expected to come by the end of May, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said. In an interview with a news channel Neeraj Kumar said: "The trial of December 16 (2012) case is almost 90 per cent complete and judgment is expected by the end of May." On December 16, 2012, a...
10:46 PM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: Mukesh, an accused in the December 16, 2012 gangrape, on Saturday changed his counsel ML Sharma who failed to appear in a fast track court in New Delhi for the fourth successive hearing. Advocate Sharma has been replaced by advocate Rajeev Jain, appointed as an amicus curiae to assist the court April 18, after the accused moved an application. Mukesh asked Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna he wanted...
06:48 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: A lawyer representing one of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case was on Tuesday warned for his repeated failure to appear in the proceedings by a special court which said had it not been this case an "adverse order" would have been passed against him. "I am not passing an adverse order. Had it been other case then I would have done it," Additional Sessions Judge...
07:18 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: A fast-track court on Monday sought Delhi Police's reply on the plea of one of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case for 15 days interim bail on the ground he has see his ailing mother in a hospital. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna asked the police to file its reply by Tuesday on accused Akshay Singh's plea to visit his mother, who he says is in...
07:34 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said that there is a need to act more decisively to protect women. Manmohan while citing the Delhi gangrape incident at a conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of high courts called for strengthening of the justice delivery system. The Prime Minister said a great deal more needs to be done as far as offences against women are concerned and to...
11:00 AM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Defence counsel in the December 16, 2012 gangrape case on Wednesday cross-examined an Air India (AI) official posted at the IGI cargo terminal who received the coffin carrying the victim's body. Cross-examined by counsel of accused Mukesh, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta, the official denied their claim that the death certificate and other documents accompanying the victim's body, which was flown in from Singapore, were manipulated. The AI...
03:33 AM, Apr 04, 2013
A witness in the December 16 gangrape case on Wednesday denied before a special court the claim of an accused that the death certificate and other relevant documents accompanying the victim's body, which was flown in from Singapore, were manipulated. "I (prosecution witness) had seen the original passport of the victim. I had not seen the dates on the passport. I can not comment on the contents of the document,"...
06:30 PM, Apr 03, 2013
One of the four accused in the December 16 gangrape case sought a direction from a special court in New Delhi that he be provided nutritious food inside Tihar jail as he has to prepare for tests for recruitment of clerks in Indian Air Force. Vinay Sharma, the accused who along with others had allegedly gangraped the 23-year-old girl in a moving bus, moved the plea before Additional Sessions Judge...
08:05 AM, Apr 02, 2013
The bail plea of one of the accused in the Delhi gangrape case Vinay Sharma is expected to be heard on Monday. The accused has sought his bail to prepare for entrance exams for the Indian Air Force. ...
09:20 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Friday lifted the gag order on media and ruled that the media will now be allowed to report on the trial of four accused in the December 16 Delhi gangrape case. ...
11:10 AM, Mar 22, 2013
After being passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the anti-rape bill will now be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The Bill was passed in the Lower House after much drama with major amendments being negated. Two amendments, seeking life term for trafficking of children and life imprisonment for acid attack, were defeated. ...
08:51 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Delhi gangrape accused Ram Singh's post-mortem report is likely to be submitted in the Saket court on Thursday. The preliminary report said that his death was due to hanging. His family, however, has alleged foul play. ...
08:44 AM, Mar 14, 2013
The Delhi Assembly Budget Session will kick off on Wednesday and the BJP is gearing up to corner the ruling party on women's safety, hike in power tariff, water tariff and on delays in the regularisation of unauthorized colonies. ...
08:00 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday called the death of Delhi gangrape main accused Ram Singh a major lapse and said an investigation was being conducted to know the exact details. ...
05:08 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The alleged suicide of the main accused in the Delhi gangrape case, Ram Singh, poses serious questions on the authorities of one of India's best prisons, the Tihar Jail. Ram Singh, who was reportedly under suicide watch, was found hanging inside his cell on Monday morning and reports say he cut his mat into a rope and hanged himself to the grill of the cell. This came even as he...
01:16 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The family of Ram Singh, the main accused in the December 16 Delhi gangrape case who allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail, on Monday claimed that he was murdered and demanded a CBI probe into the incident. ...
12:01 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Ram Singh, who was found hanging at 5 am on Monday inside his cell in the Tihar Jail, was the main accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case in which a 23-year-old paramedical student was gangraped inside a moving bus and her friend was beaten up. He was the driver of the bus in which the girl was gangraped on December 16, 2012. ...
10:08 AM, Mar 11, 2013
The lawyer of Ram Singh, the main accused in the Delhi gangrape case who committed suicide, was 'shocked' to hear about the death of his client. Speaking to CNN-IBN, the lawyer, VK Anand said Ram Singh showed no signs of distress and had no reasons to commit suicide. ...
08:58 AM, Mar 11, 2013
