New Delhi:
The Delhi Police is expected to receive the forensic and DNA reports today in the gang-rape case of the 23-year-old medical student, who died in Singapore on Saturday. The results will establish the presence of the six accused on the bus, on which the young woman was gang-raped and assaulted on December 16.
The Delhi Police has said it will file a chargesheet by Wednesday. The chargesheet is expected to be of 1000 pages.
After the young woman's death on Saturday, the police added the charge of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code against the six accused men. They had already been charged with gang-rape, kidnapping, unnatural offences, hurting in committing robbery and common intention under the Indian Penal Code.
All the six accused have been arrested.
On the evening of December 16, a Sunday, the young woman boarded a private bus on her way back home with a male friend. The six men on the bus first taunted the couple for being out late together and then, after an altercation, beat the friend with an iron rod and then took turns to rape the woman, also beating and assaulting her with the iron rod. They then threw the couple out of the bus on a flyover, where they were found by a passer-by who called the police.
The woman suffered injuries so severe that her intestines had to be removed. She also had injuries to her brain and abdomen and underwent three major surgeries and a cardiac arrest in her 10 days in the intensive care unit of the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, before she was taken to Singapore in an air ambulance on Wednesday night. She died of severe organ failure on Saturday and was created in Delhi on Sunday.