Girl gangrape : Six accused sent to five days police custody

New Delhi: The bus driver and six others, who allegedly gang raped a 23-year-old girl on Sunday night, was on Tuesday remanded to five days in police custody by a Delhi court.
Ram Singh, who was the first person to be arrested last night, was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal who allowed the plea of Delhi Police for his custodial interrogation for facilitating the arrest of three other accused who are absconding.
The accused refused to undergo Test Identification Parade (TIP), the criminal procedure in which the alleged offender is brought before witnesses and victims for identification. Out of the seven accused, four have already been arrested.
Further, “we need his remand as three more accused are to be arrested who hail from Rajasthan, UP and Bihar and we have to take Ram Singh to these places,” police said.
Allowing the plea, the court said, “Since the accused is required for apprehending other co-accused and also for the identification of clothes and recovery of the ATM card and mobile phones of the complainant.
“Accused Ram Singh is remanded to five days of police custody. Accused be produced on December 23.”
The girl, a paramedical student, was raped and brutally assaulted before being thrown out of  the moving vehicle with her male friend. The court was jampacked as Singh, with his face covered, was brought by the police for the hearing.
Both the victim and her male friend, who had boarded the chartered bus with tinted glass windows from Munirka in south Delhi around 9.45 PM to Palam on Sunday night, were assaulted with an iron rod by the men after the two resisted before they were dumped on the road side near Mahipalpur flyover, police said.