印度輪姦案一被告獄中自縊身亡
Indian police say one of the men accused in the gang rape of a female student on a New Delhi bus has committed suicide in jail.
An official at Tihar jail says Ram Singh hanged himself with his own clothes Monday morning. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde told reporters that the alleged suicide was a major lapse in security and that authorities were investigating its circumstances.
Singh's parents and lawyer insist Singh was murdered in prison, and that an old hand injury made him incapable of hanging himself.
Singh's father said his son told him that he had been sodomized by other inmates who had repeatedly threatened his life.
Singh was accused of driving the bus on which a 23-year-old student was raped and assault with an iron rod for more than two hours in December. Her internal injuries were so severe that she died two weeks later.
Authorities accused Singh of being the leader of the gang of five men and a juvenile. The trial of the five adult men began in a special fast-track court last month, while the juvenile's trial began last week.印度警方說，被控在新德里輪姦一名女學生的男被告之一在監獄中自殺。
蒂哈爾監獄的一名官員說，拉姆•辛格星期一上午用自己的衣服自縊身亡。印度內政部長蘇希爾•庫馬爾•欣德對記者說，輪姦犯可能自殺事件反映了監獄存在嚴重的安全漏洞，當局正在就這一事件進行調查。
辛格的父母和律師堅持認爲，辛格在監獄中被謀殺，他的一隻手上有舊傷，無法自縊。
辛格的父親說，辛格曾經告訴他，其他犯人對辛格進行雞姦，並屢次威脅他的生命。
去年12月，一名23歲的女學生在一輛公交車中被輪姦和用鐵棍施虐兩個多小時，當時駕駛那輛公交車的就是辛格。這名女學生受到非常嚴重的內傷，兩星期後死亡。
當局指控辛格是涉案的五名男子和一名未成年人的團伙頭目。上個月，一個特別快速法庭開始審訊五名成年被告，對那名未成年被告的審訊從上星期開始。
