Delhi gang rape: Victim critical, three confess to crime, one more detained

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New Delhi, December 19, 2012: Three accused Mukesh, Pawan and Vinay were on Wedesday produced in court where they confessed to the crime.  Pawan refuses to undergo test identification parade saying he committed a "heinous act." Mukesh agrees to undergo test identification parade by victim’s male friend, the TIP will take place on Thursday in Tihar Jail.

Vinay reportedly refused to undergo test identification parade and said before the court  that he assaulted the boy, not the girl.

 Pawan and Vinay have been sent to four-day police custody while Mukesh sent to Tihar jail for 14 days in judicial custody.

A fifth accused, Akshay Thakur has been detained from Aurangabad in Bihar and is being brought to Delhi, sources said.

Water canons were used on protesters who had gathered outsite Delhi chief minister Shiela Dikshit’s residence on Wednesday, to demand immediate action in the gangrape.

Three days after a 23-year old woman was assaulted and gangraped in a moving bus in the national capital, she continues to fight for life in Safdarjung Hospital.

According to TV reports, vital organs of the girl are permanently damaged.

She is on a ventilator in the hospital’s ICU and is getting a regular infusion of morphine to control the pain, doctors treating her claim that the pain is so excruciating that despite the morphine dose she is conscious.

But the victim, despite her critical injuries, is putting up a good fight.

The victim had received severe genital and abdominal injuries and lost a lot of blood during the assault. Doctors claimed that they had never seen such brutal assault.

"Her condition is critical but she is conscious and communicating by writing notes. She is a spirited girl and is showing tremendous will to fight her condition," said Dr BD Athani, Medical Superintendent, Safdarjung Hospital.

To boost her spirits further, the hospital authorities had even considered the idea of showing her television so that she realised action was being taken against the culprits.

"We did think of it initially but then decided against it as it would have meant moving her from her bed," said a doctor in the hospital. Her parents are anxiously waiting outside the ICU, but doctors have not allowed the father to meet her and even the mother has met only twice to avoid infection.

The condition of the girl had marginally improved on Tuesday morning, and she had even started communicating with the doctors by writing small chits. ’Lift my leg’, ’pain in my right leg’, ’clean my throat, it’s burning,’ and ’have they been caught’ were some of the notes written by her through the morning.

Courtesy: NDTV