Khanna said it did not matter who actually committed the rape and what was the degree of whose brutality: They were all equally culpable in the rape and eventual death of the victim.
The sessions court judge, Yogesh Khanna, who sentenced the men to death, however, was clear that there was enough evidence of common intent. Mukesh had also pleaded that since he was driving the bus, he had not raped the woman. He later also hit the victims with an iron rod. Mukesh, then 26, was driving the bus that night and he was the one who lured the victims to board it. He lived with Ram Singh and was a cleaner on the bus. His parents and lawyers said he was killed, an accusation that led to speculation about conditions in a jail where undertrials in such a high-profile case could commit suicide or get killed, even though they were on “suicide watch”. The police called the death of Ram Singh a suicide. While lodged in Tihar Jail as an undertrial, Ram Singh was found dead on March 11, 2013, hanging from the window grill with his shirt as a noose even as his cell mates slept undisturbed. Ram Singh was the first to be arrested in the Nirbhaya case, when the bus was identified by CCTV footage outside hotels in Mahipalpur, where the victim and her friend were dumped on that cold night. Some say he wanted to adopt a son of his brother, Suresh. A widower and alcoholic, Ram Singh was disliked and avoided by his neighbours. He, however, continued to work as a bus driver. He had injured an arm in an accident in 2009, and it had never properly healed. This was the bus that the victim and her friend boarded the night of the crime.
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The third among five brothers, Ram Singh was the driver of a contract bus.
Originally from Rajasthan, he lived in Sant Ravi Dass Camp, a slum in South Delhi. He was 30 at the time of the incident, and the oldest member of the group. Who were the six men who, on the night of December 16, 2012, brutalised a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in such a horrendous manner that even a nation inured to crimes against women flared up in anger and outrage, and forced the government to change rape laws? The former through a suicide or murder while in jail, the latter because he was not old enough to be tried for rape and murder. The oldest and the youngest got away, in a manner of speaking.
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