Dec 16 gangrape: IO not examined due to accused's illness

The statement of the investigating officer in the December 16 gangrape case could not be recorded today in a special fast track court as one of the four accused failed to reach the court due to ill health.
Vinay Sharma, who has been ill since May 8, could not reach the court as his health deteriorated while on his way to attend the proceedings.
Additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna was informed by Vinay's lawyer A P Singh that his client fainted while being brought to the court from the hospital in an ambulance.
Singh also told the court that Vinay's blood pressure was dipping fast and he could slip into coma.

On being told about Vinay's condition, the court advised that he be taken back to the hospital for treatment.
Vinay is admitted in the DDU hospital following high fever and other ailments.

During the day, the court recorded the statement of one of the prosecution witnesses, a photographer of CFSL in CBI.
The witness told the court that he along with his team had on December 17 and 18 last year taken photographs of the bus in which the girl was gangraped.
He denied the suggestions of the lawyer for the accused that the photographs were tampered with.
He said he had developed the photographs and they were not tampered with in any manner as the software which they use for developing the pictures is tamper proof.

Pawan, Akshay, Vinay and Mukesh are four adult accused facing trial before the fast track court for brutally assaulting and gangraping the victim, who later died at a Singapore hospital.
A juvenile accused is being tried by the Juvenile Justice Board.
One of the accused Ram Singh, the driver of the bus, was found dead in Tihar jail in March and the proceedings against him stand abated.