The 23-year-old girl, who was gang-raped and brutally assaulted in a Delhi bus nearly a fortnight ago, passed away at a Singapore hospital early on Saturday morning. Delhi Police says murder charges will be framed against all the accused and the crime will be treated as a rarest of rare cases. Here's a profile of the 6 men behind the ghastly crime:
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Ram Singh, 33 years: A bus driver for two schools in Delhi and Noida each
Role: Main accused. A local bully in south Delhi's Ravi Ds slum cluster, he was drunk at the time of the incidentand triggered the altercation which snowballed into the horror
Details: Was tracked using CCTV footage of the bus
Status: Arrested, claims to have 'remorse', sent to 14-day judicial custody
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Mukesh Singh, 31 years, driver-cum-cleaner
Marital status: Single
Role: He was driving the bus. He is the younger brother of Ram Singh. He assauled the girl and later attempted to destroy the evidence
Details: Was among the only remaining family member that Ram Singh had left at the slum cluster
Status: Arrested, in judicial custody
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Pawan Gupta, 18 years, fruit vendor
Marital Status: Single
Role: He assaulted the victim's friend. He also helped in throwing the couple off the bus
Details: He lived in Ravi Das camp with his family. He quit studies after Class 9. His mother maintains that he was not friends with the other accused.
Status: Arrested, expressed 'remorse' for assault, says did not rape the girl
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Vinay Sharma, 20 years, Gym trainer
Marital status: single
Role: He brutally assaulted the girl's friend before sexually assaulting her. He had held him down as others beat him with iron rod
Details: He was nabbed from his house in Ravi Das camp a day after the incident
Status: Arrested, admitted to his involvement and sought capital punishment
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A juvenile, name withheld, sweeper-cum-cleaner
Role: Among the three persons who most demonically assaulted the girl. He solicited the couple on to the bus. He sexually assaulted her and kept brutalising her even after she lost consciousness
Details: A runaway from a broken home, he was nabbed from Anand Vihar ISBT
Status: Produced at Juvenile Justice Board
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Akshay Kumar Singh, 20 years, helper
Marital status: Married, with two children
Role: Cooked food for RamSingh's alcohol-fuelled 'party' on the fateful afternoon. he was the second man to have sexually assaulted the victim
Details: Police nabbed him from his native village in Bihar's Aurangabad
