Accused sent to judicial custody

NEW DELHI: A trial court on Saturday sent one of the six accused in the Vasant Vihar gang rape case to judicial custody for 12 days.
Akshay Singh alias Thakur, who was the last one to be arrested in the case, was produced before additional chief metropolitan magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma after expiry of his daylong police custody. "Let he be produced on January 9," the court said.
Akshay had been sent to police custody on Friday for a day to recover the remaining case property and clothes which he and other five accused, all in custody, were wearing while gang-raping and brutally assaulting a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in a moving chartered bus in the city.
Police have now recovered all the articles, including the clothes of the accused, the victim's cellphone and her male friend's ATM card, associated with the crime.
Police said the victim's friend had also identified the ring which his friend was wearing on that night.