New Delhi, Mar 11 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit met Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde after Ram Singh, one of the key accused in the December 16 gang-rape case, committed suicide on Monday morning.
The chief minister refused to comment on Ram Singh's suicide.
"It would be wrong to comment on this incident until the magisterial level enquiry is not over," Dikshit told media here.
"Ram Singh was committed suicide in Tihar jail. Magisterial enquiry will automatically come around. A post-mortem of the body is already under way. And, then when the inquiry reports comes up, then appropriate action will be taken," she added.
She further said she did not discuss the case with Home Minister, but only informed him about the death of the main accused in the Delhi gangrape case.
Delhi gang-rape main accused Ram Singh committed suicide today around 5 a.m. by hanging himself inside jail number 3 of Tihar Jail.
Singh, who was to be produced before court today for its daily hearing, was rushed to the jail hospital where he was declared brought dead.
His body was taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital for post mortem. Forensic experts have visited the Jail premises to collect samples.
Tihar jail sources said Ram Singh, the prime accused in the December 16, 2012, Delhi gang- rape-cum murder case, hung himself using his clothes probably his own shirt. The incident came to fore when the guard spotted him this morning.
Singh was the driver of the bus in which the 23-year-old physiotherapist student was gang-raped by him and his five associates, including a minor, in south Delhi after brutally beating her and her male friend.
Ram Singh, along with the other four accused, was charged with murder, gang-rape, destruction of evidence, criminal conspiracy, dacoity, unnatural sex and common intent in the case. The sixth accused is a Juvenile and is in an observation home.
Ram Singh's death has posed serious questions on the security provided to the accused as all of them were under 'suicide watch after they had stopped talking and interacting amongst themselves.
The Tihar Central Jail complex has several jails, each identified by a number. While Pawan, 19, and Akshay, 29, are held in Jail No 4, Vinay, 20, and Mukesh, 26, are in Jail No 7.
Singh was arrested soon after the December 16 incident from near his home in R K Puram. The girl died of her injuries on December 29, 2012 in the multi-specialty Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. (ANI)
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