The accused in the December 16 gang-rape case were chargesheeted in a court on Friday by the Delhi Police in a separate case lodged against them for robbing a man before brutally assaulting and raping the girl. The police filed its charge sheet against all the five accused during closed-door proceedings before Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Akash Jain who took cognisance of the final report and posted the matter for further hearing on March 28.
“Cognisance taken. To come up for scrutiny of documents and consideration on March 28,” the magistrate said. Ram Singh, who was the main accused in the gang-rape case as well as the robbery case, had allegedly committed suicide on March 11, inside Tihar Jail where he was lodged under judicial custody. The court had thereafter abated the proceedings against Ram Singh in the gang-rape case.
The police, in its 15-page charge sheet, has given the details about how 35-year-old carpenter Ram Adhar was allegedly robbed by the accused in the bus on December 16 and later thrown out of the moving vehicle. According to police, the five accused — bus driver Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Akshay Singh, along with a juvenile, had snatched Ram Adhar’s mobile phone and Rs1,500 after luring him into the bus.
The juvenile, who was acting as a conductor in the bus, has been named in the robbery case but a separate charge sheet has been filed against him before the Juvenile Justice Board.
The juvenile had torn his clothes and snatched his mobile phone, the police said, adding that he also threw Ram Adhar at IIT flyover after the commission of crime. In the charge sheet running into a total of 153 pages along with the annexures, it said that the robbed articles were later on recovered from the possession of the accused persons. Along with the charge sheet, police has filed 20 sets of documents and has cited 30 people as prosecution witnesses.