New Delhi: The hearing in the Delhi gang-rape case will begin on Saturday in a special fast-track court.
On Thursday, the Delhi Police had filed a 1,000-page chargesheet in the Delhi gang-rape case in the Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Saket.
The court had then fixed January 05 for cognisance of offence.
Dharmendra Kumar Mishra, a lawyer at Saket Court, had said: "At the end of the today's (Thursday) proceeding the learned duty magistrate had taken the chargesheet on record and adjourned the case for January 05 for consideration. A concerned regular magistrate would conduct the case on that day.”
"Police had filed chargesheet before the concerned today's duty magistrate and the duty magistrate has taken the chargesheet on record. The police also requested the court to keep the identity of the victim secret," added Mishra.
The Delhi Police have filed a chargesheet seeking trial for murder and gang-rape against five men who brutally assaulted the young woman who died 13 days later in Singapore.
The case against the sixth accused, said to be a minor, would be heard by the Juvenile Justice Board.
The five are bus driver Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh, fruit seller Pawan Gupta, gym instructor Vinay Sharma and bus cleaner Akshay Thakur. All of them are now in Delhi's Tihar Central Jail.
They have been charged with murder, gang-rape, unnatural offence, destruction of evidence, attempt to murder, kidnapping, causing hurt while committing robbery, dacoity with murder, and common intent.
The prosecution during the trial is expected to demand death penalty for the five accused in connection with ghastly incident, which stirred the conscience of the nation.
The sequence of events, the treatment, shifting of the patient to a Singapore hospital as well as her death, have all been mentioned along with statements of 30 witnesses in the chargesheet.
Police have urged the court to have in-camera proceedings but the court said it would decide the issue later.
The main formal charges would highlight that Ram Singh, a short-tempered man involved in crime, was instrumental in the December 16 assault.
He also used an iron rod on the victim with the help of Thakur and the minor co-accused, a police officer said.
The driver and Thakur will be accused of destroying evidence as they washed the bus after the incident at Noida, near Delhi, the officer said. They also burnt the victims' clothes.
According to police, it was the minor who first passed lewd comments on the woman after they boarded the bus around 9.15 pm.
The attackers were drunk and were on a joy ride.
They brutally beat the woman and her friend with an iron rod when they resisted them. Then they gang-raped the woman. The young woman fought the accused and bit Thakur, Ram Singh and Sharma.
Ramadhar Singh, a man who was robbed by the six on the bus minutes before the gang-rape, would also testify as a witness.
All the accused were arrested between December 17-21 following a nationwide outcry over the crime, which also triggered protests in several cities. In Delhi, protesters clashed with security forces.
The gang-rape led the government to promise speedier trial of rape cases and amendments in rape laws.
Read More: http://zeenews.india.com/news/delhi/delhi-gang-rape-case-hearing-begins-today_820835.html
On Thursday, the Delhi Police had filed a 1,000-page chargesheet in the Delhi gang-rape case in the Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Saket.
The court had then fixed January 05 for cognisance of offence.
Dharmendra Kumar Mishra, a lawyer at Saket Court, had said: "At the end of the today's (Thursday) proceeding the learned duty magistrate had taken the chargesheet on record and adjourned the case for January 05 for consideration. A concerned regular magistrate would conduct the case on that day.”
"Police had filed chargesheet before the concerned today's duty magistrate and the duty magistrate has taken the chargesheet on record. The police also requested the court to keep the identity of the victim secret," added Mishra.
The Delhi Police have filed a chargesheet seeking trial for murder and gang-rape against five men who brutally assaulted the young woman who died 13 days later in Singapore.
The case against the sixth accused, said to be a minor, would be heard by the Juvenile Justice Board.
The five are bus driver Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh, fruit seller Pawan Gupta, gym instructor Vinay Sharma and bus cleaner Akshay Thakur. All of them are now in Delhi's Tihar Central Jail.
They have been charged with murder, gang-rape, unnatural offence, destruction of evidence, attempt to murder, kidnapping, causing hurt while committing robbery, dacoity with murder, and common intent.
The prosecution during the trial is expected to demand death penalty for the five accused in connection with ghastly incident, which stirred the conscience of the nation.
The sequence of events, the treatment, shifting of the patient to a Singapore hospital as well as her death, have all been mentioned along with statements of 30 witnesses in the chargesheet.
The main formal charges would highlight that Ram Singh, a short-tempered man involved in crime, was instrumental in the December 16 assault.
He also used an iron rod on the victim with the help of Thakur and the minor co-accused, a police officer said.
The driver and Thakur will be accused of destroying evidence as they washed the bus after the incident at Noida, near Delhi, the officer said. They also burnt the victims' clothes.
According to police, it was the minor who first passed lewd comments on the woman after they boarded the bus around 9.15 pm.
The attackers were drunk and were on a joy ride.
They brutally beat the woman and her friend with an iron rod when they resisted them. Then they gang-raped the woman. The young woman fought the accused and bit Thakur, Ram Singh and Sharma.
Ramadhar Singh, a man who was robbed by the six on the bus minutes before the gang-rape, would also testify as a witness.
All the accused were arrested between December 17-21 following a nationwide outcry over the crime, which also triggered protests in several cities. In Delhi, protesters clashed with security forces.
The gang-rape led the government to promise speedier trial of rape cases and amendments in rape laws.
Read More: http://zeenews.india.com/news/delhi/delhi-gang-rape-case-hearing-begins-today_820835.html
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