NEW DELHI – The main accused in the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi last December hanged himself in jail Monday while in solitary confinement, police and prison officials told AFP. "Yes, he is dead," an official said in the control room of New Delhi's Tihar Jail when asked about Ram Singh, the man suspected of leading the gang-rape which ignited street protests and a round of soul-searching about women in India. A senior police officer on the case, who also asked not to be named, told AFP that the 35-year-old widower had hanged himself at 5:15 am in his cell. "The case will continue. There is no reason for the ca...
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