Rape defendant suicide

V.K. Anand, center, lawyer for Ram Singh, speaks with the media inside the hospital where Singh's body is scheduled to arrive for autopsy in New Delhi. Singh, the driver of the bus in which a 23-year-old woman was gang-raped and fatally injured in December, hanged himself in New Delhi's Tihar jail on Monday, officials said, a dramatic twist in a case that has provoked outrage across India. 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, raising questions about whether it was a suicide and how it could have gone unnoticed by staff in India's highest security prison. The lawyer and a prison official said Singh had not been on suicide watch.

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( Adnan Abidi, Reuters / March 11, 2013 )

V.K. Anand, center, lawyer for Ram Singh, speaks with the media inside the hospital where Singh's body is scheduled to arrive for autopsy in New Delhi. Singh, the driver of the bus in which a 23-year-old woman was gang-raped and fatally injured in December, hanged himself in New Delhi's Tihar jail on Monday, officials said, a dramatic twist in a case that has provoked outrage across India. 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, raising questions about whether it was a suicide and how it could have gone unnoticed by staff in India's highest security prison. The lawyer and a prison official said Singh had not been on suicide watch.

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