Evidence recovered at Dec 16 accused instance; IO tells court

The lady police officer today told a special court here that she arrested five out of six accused in the December 16 gangrape case and at their instance important evidence were recovered.
The sub inspector, posted at Vasant Vihar police station here, deposed for the second day before Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna that robbed articles of the 23-year-old victim were also recovered from all the six accused, including the juvenile who is being tried before the Juvenile Justice Board.
"...On disclosure statement of the accused persons (five adult, including Ram Singh who died on March 11), they took out their clothes wearing at the time of the commission of the crime on December 16, 2012 night.

"The clothes recovered were also containing some blood stains," the investigating officer (IO), who was the last and the crucial prosecution witness in the case told the court.
She further stated that the accused persons also took out the robbed articles including clothes and other valuables of the victim and her male friend, which they had hidden soon after the incident night.
Ram Singh, who was found hanging in his cell in Tihar jail, was the first to be arrested in the case. Later, accused Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh were apprehended.
On December 21, 2012, the juvenile was apprehended from Anand Vihar bus terminal in east Delhi. The last arrest in the case was Akshay Thakur who was apprehended from Aurangabad in Bihar.

Asked whether the accused persons were identified by the victim's friend, the IO said they were correctly recognised by the 28-year-old software engineer, also the complainant in the case.