Robbery case: Court to record statement of accused on Feb 28

A Delhi Court today fixed February 28 for recording the statements of four death row convicts in the December 16 gang rape case, who are facing trial for their alleged involvement in a robbery case.
Additional Session Judge Daya Prakash, who was scheduled to start the recording of statements of the accused today fixed it for February 28 as the questions to be asked from the accused were not ready.
During the hearing, advocate A P Singh, appearing for accused Akshay Thakur, moved a plea seeking direction to the Tihar jail authorities to provide TV, newspaper and magazines to his client inside the prison.

Singh alleged other jail inmates were allowed to watch TV and read newspapers and magazines but Akshay was not given any such facility on the ground that he belonged to "naxalite prone area of Bihar".
The court has asked the jail authorities to respond to the plea on February 28.
Earlier, the court had concluded recording of prosecution evidence in the robbery case in which four accused Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Mukesh and Pawan Gupta are facing trial.

During the trial, the court had recorded the statements of 37 prosecution witnesses, including a carpenter, Ram Adhar, who was allegedly beaten up and robbed by the accused.

The accused are facing trial for allegedly beating up and robbing Ram Adhar before raping and assaulting a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16, 2012.
The gang rape victim died in a Singapore hospital on December 29. Key accused Ram Singh allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail on March 11 and proceedings against him have abated.