NEW DELHI: Three of the four arrested accused in the Delhi gang rape case, Mukesh, Pawan and Vinay, were on Wedesday produced in Saket court, where they confessed to the crime.
According to Times Now, Pawan refused to undergo test identification parade saying he committed a “heinous act.” Mukesh agreed to undergo test identification parade by victim’s friend.
The court remanded Pawan and Vinay to four-day police custody, while Mukesh was sent to judicial custody for 14 days.
Vinay Sharma confessed to beating up the victim’s male friend and demanded that he be hanged. “I have committed a horrible crime. I had beaten up the boy. I should be hanged,” Vinay said in the court.
The third accused, Mukesh, brother of main accused Ram Singh, did not confess to the crime but agreed to undergo identification test by the victim’s male friend.
Meanwhile, one more person who was also allegedly involved in the rape of the 23-year-old girl in a moving bus has been detained from Bihar, police said.
Akshay Thakur has been detained from Aurangabad in Bihar and is being brought to Delhi, sources said.
Metropolitan Magistrate Garg also asked the police to move a fresh application for recording the confessional statement of the accused persons saying “what they have said in court is not on oath”.
Returning to the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal, the police did not seek custody of Mukesh, but said the custodial interrogation of the other two were necessary for “arresting the two other accused in the case” and for recovery of clothes.
Police said it also has to recover the ATM cards and mobile phones of the victim and her male friend.
“Since the accused persons are required for apprehending the other two accused and for recovery of the ATM cards and mobile phones of the complainants (victim and her male friend), they are remanded to four days police custody. They be produced on December 23,” Aggarwal said.
All the accused are facing charges under sections 365 (kidnapping or abducting), 376 (2)(g) (gang rape), 377 (unnatural offences), 394 (hurting in committing robbery) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC.
The bus driver Ram Singh, the first person to be arrested in the case, was yesterday remanded to five days in police custody by a Delhi court. He had refused to undergo the TIP.
