Night of shame continues……

He further disclosed that the driver was named Ram Singh and lived in one of the shanties of Guru Ravi Das Camp, a slum abutting Sector 3 of R.K. Puram in south Delhi. The driver usually parked the bus in the vicinity of his abode.

By then it was 11 a.m. on 17 December, the day following the crime. A police team rushed to Guru Ravi Das Camp and saw the bus parked there. On inquiries, two local residents, namely Brijesh Gupta and Jiwat Shah, came forward to testify that they had seen two men cleaning the inside of the bus late at night. They had also seen the men burning clothes. On inquiring where the bus’s driver resided, the jhuggi was found and Ram Singh (aged thirty) was nabbed, despite his best efforts to escape. He took the police team to the bus, which was inspected in the presence of witnesses. It had been washed from the inside and every effort made to obliterate all traces of evidence. A forensic team was called, which recovered two bloodstained iron rods, a debit card in the name of Asha Devi (Nirbhaya’s mother), traces of blood, hair and spit from inside the bus. A T-shirt and a pair of bloodstained brown slippers were also seized. Ram Singh further led the investigating officer to the spot where he had tried to burn the clothes of the victims. SI Pratibha Sharma collected the ashes and pieces of unburnt cloth from the spot. On closer inspection, a UNIX mobile phone and an MTNL SIM card were also found and seized. After the forensic examination and the seizing of articles with evidentiary value, the bus was moved to Thyagaraj Sports Complex for safe custody, away from the glare of the public and the media.

To be continued…..