The Juvenile Justice Board (JJB)of Delhi is likely to pronounce its verdict against the juvenile, one of the six accused in the gang-rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student on December 16, last year.
The JJB is expected to pronounce the verdict against the juvenile on charges of robbery and rape. It may be recalled that Vasant Vihar Police had booked all the six accused, the bus driver late Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur, Vipin Sharma, Pawan Gupta and the juvenile for gang-raping the hapless girl in a moving bus. Police said that the juvenile was the cruelest of all the six, who gang-raped the girl. This judgement will be the first in the Dec-16 gang-rape case.
The JJB resided by the Principal Magistrate Geetanjali Goel, was to pronounce the judgement on July 11, but it was deferred to July 25. The Board began the enquiry in this horrendous case in March-end and recorded statements of six prosecution witnesses during the trial of minor, who was charged with murder after the victim died on December 29 in a Singapore hospital. Investigations revealed that it was the juvenile who had enticed the victim and her male friend into the bus on the pretext of taking them to their destination. Also, it was he who had lured carpenter Ramadhar to board the bus. Ramadhar was beaten and robbed.
The JJB had concluded its inquiry against the juvenile on July 5 and had fixed the matter for judgement on July 11. The board had held the juvenile guilty of robbery on July 19 and had fixed July 25 for the judgement. The four adult accused Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharam, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh are facing trial in a special fast-track court. As the main accused Ram Singh committed suicide in Tihar prison on March 11, the case against him was abated.