Alleged Indian gang-rape ringleader found dead in prison

Manish Swarup / AP

The mother of Ram Singh, the man accused of driving the bus on which a 23-year-old student was gang raped in December 2012, cries as she speaks to journalists inside the family's home in New Delhi on March 11.

Reuters reports: The alleged ringleader in the gang-rape and death of a young Indian woman in December hanged himself in jail on Monday, officials said, a dramatic twist in a case that has provoked outrage across India.

Ram Singh's lawyer said his client had been composed and calm when he spoke to him on Friday and that there were other inmates in his cell in New Delhi's Tihar jail, raising questions about whether it was a suicide and how it could have gone unnoticed by staff in India's highest security prison. Read full story.

Saurabh Das / AP

An Indian police officer prepares to close one of the gates at Tihar Jail, the largest complex of prisons in South Asia, in New Delhi on March 11. Indian police confirmed that Ram Singh, one of the men on trial for his alleged involvement in the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus, hanged himself at the jail Monday, but his lawyer and family allege he was killed.

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Comment author avatarbjwebbb

Ordinairily I feel sorry for mothers put into this kind of situation, but not in this case. She -- and her husband -- raised a monster.

  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:40 AM EDT
Comment author avatardo justice

the evil bastard did the world a favor, may more of these deamon animals follow suite around the world...

  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:12 PM EDT
Comment author avatarfred-3775728

not gonna lie, I thought it was Tan Mom.

    Reply#3 - Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:50 PM EDT
    Comment author avatarjerryb-1604912

    It may not have been suicide. Rapists are not treated well in prison.

    • 1 vote
    Reply#4 - Mon Mar 11, 2013 5:35 PM EDT
    Comment author avatarRick O

    India? A horrible sewer! A filthy nightmare! Can't believe anyone in their right mind would even consider visiting there.

    • 1 vote
    Reply#5 - Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:48 AM EDT
    Comment author avatarSionyx

    Criminal or not, suicide or not, this reminds us that everyone has family. She's still a mother and you can see the pain on her face.

      Reply#6 - Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:08 PM EDT
      Comment author avatarTerelyn

      Small loss.

      Only five to go.

      I might feel sorry for the mother, if she hadn't raised such a heartless monster.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#7 - Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:19 PM EDT
      Comment author avatarBruce Hershimburger

      India has a long history of violence toward woman. How can a man call himself a man and yet brutalize a woman? To me that is the act of a coward. India appears to have many cowardly men. Perhaps we should ship Chris Brown over there.

        Reply#8 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:41 AM EDT
        Comment author avatarRuss1

        Hope it wasn't quick

        • 2 votes
        Reply#9 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:20 AM EDT
        Comment author avatarmejustme

        May he rot in HELL forever.. what a POS!! He didn't deserve the air he inhaled daily. If inmates killed him- oh well - sweet prison justice!

          Reply#10 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:33 PM EDT
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