{"id":6468,"date":"2013-03-11T04:57:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/delhi-gang-rape-suspect-commits-suicide\/"},"modified":"2013-03-11T05:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:16:22","slug":"delhi-gang-rape-suspect-commits-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/delhi-gang-rape-suspect-commits-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi gang-rape Suspect ‘Commits Suicide’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{India Police said a man on trial for the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus has committed suicide in an Indian jail, but his lawyer and family allege he was killed.}}<\/p>\n

Ram Singh, who was accused of driving the bus on which the 23-year-old student was raped by a group of six men in December, was under suicide watch at New Delhi’s Tihar Jail when he hanged himself on Monday with his own clothes at about 5:30 am, police officials said.<\/p>\n

His death is raising further questions about a criminal justice system already being criticised for failing to protect the nation’s women.<\/p>\n

Singh and his four fellow defendants were facing the death penalty if convicted of the attack, which horrified Indians and set off national protests. A sixth accused is being tried and jailed separately because he is a juvenile.<\/p>\n

India’s deputy home minister, R P N Singh, said an inquiry had been ordered into the suicide, according to the Press Trust of India.<\/p>\n

Ram Singh’s family and lawyer alleged foul play in his death.<\/p>\n

“There were no circumstances which could have led to Ram Singh committing suicide. There was no mental stress. He was very happy,” his lawyer VK Anand said.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the defendants had previously accused police of beating confessions out of the men.<\/p>\n

Ram Singh’s father, Mangelal Singh, said his son had been raped in prison by other inmates and had been repeatedly threatened by inmates and guards.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, he said he visited his son four days ago and the man appeared fine and gave no hint of the despair that could drive him to take his own life.<\/p>\n

Ram Singh, 34, also had a badly injured hand and would have been unable to orchestrate a suicide, his father said, speaking from outside his small home in a New Delhi slum.<\/p>\n

“Somebody has killed him,” he said, insisting he would push for a top level investigation into the death.<\/p>\n

Mangelal Singh said he feared for the safety of another son who is also on trial in the rape case.<\/p>\n

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