Delhi Gang-Rape: Case Diary

[Sidhu...Sidhaarth Roy]

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NEW DELHI: Nine months after the brutal gang rape of Nirbhaya shocked the country, a Delhi court today held all the four accused guilty of all the charges against them.

CASE DIARY

Dec 16, 2012: Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old paramedic student, gang-raped and assaulted by six men in a private bus and thrown out of the moving vehicle along with her male friend

Dec 17: Police identify four accused-Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta

Dec 18: Ram Singh and three others arrested

Dec 20: Victim's friend testifies

Dec 21: Juvenile perpetrator nabbed from Anand Vihar bus terminal in Delhi

Dec 22: Sixth accused, Akshay Thakur, arrested in Aurangabad district of Bihar. Nirbhaya, fighting for life in Safdarjung Hospital, records statement before SDM

Dec 26: Government decides to take her to Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital following a cardiac arrest

Dec 29: Nirbhaya dies in Singapore at 2.15am; police add murder charge in FIR

Jan 3, 2013: Police file chargesheet against five adult accused

Jan 7: Court orders incamera proceedings

Jan 17: Fast-track court starts proceedings

Feb 2: Frames charges against five adult accused

Mar 11: Ram Singh commits suicide in Tihar Jail

Mar 22: Delhi HC allows national media to report proceedings

Aug 22: Final arguments begin

Aug 31: Juvenile Justice Board sends juvenile accused to a home for 3 years

Sep 3: Fast-track court reserves order for Sep 10

Sep 10: Court holds the accused guilty of 13 offences including gang rape, unnatural offence, murder, dacoity, conspiracy, kidnapping and destruction of evidence.


NOT FAST ENOUGH

Trial concluded in 130 effective hearings over 7 months 85 prosecution witnesses examined 17 defence witnesses. Final arguments concluded on Sep 3 and the accused were held guilty of all charges on Sep 10.


KEY WITNESSES

Nirbhaya's male friend identifies all accused and describes their role and sequence of events to the court in in-camera proceedings.

Investigating officer identifies all accused and the evidence. Also tells the court about details of their arrest.

Metropolitan magistrate records the statement of Nirbhaya, considered as dying declaration of the victim.

DNA expert says bloodstained clothes recovered from accused match with Nirbhaya's.

Doctors at Safdurjung Hospital say injuries inflicted upon the 23-year-old were enough to cause her death.

Statements of doctors at the Singapore hospital recorded through video-conferencing . They also analyse slides containing samples of cells and tissue of Nirbhaya.


IMPORTANT EVIDENCE

Dying declaration of Nirbhaya Bus in which the incident took place CCTV footage of the bus Statement of Nirbhaya's male friend Forensic and medical evidence, including bloodstained clothes of the accused DNA samples. Court convicted the four by relying on the victim's dying declaration and forensic evidence.


WHAT THE CONVICTS CLAIMED

Mukesh Singh

Claimed innocence; said his brother Ram Singh had asked him to drive the bus as the others were drunk. 'I did not leave the driver's seat even for a moment. The door of the cabin was shut, so I couldn't hear the voice clearly'.

Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta -

They went to attend a musical event in south Delhi and were not in the bus. They had a fight with Ram Singh, so he and Mukesh falsely implicated them.

Akshay Thakur -

He was not present in the bus. 'I was not in Delhi as I had left for my village on December 15, 2012'.

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