Delhi gangrape Nirbhaya convict Vinay Sharma attempts suicide by taking pills and trying to hang himself with a towel
New Delhi August 25Vinay Sharma, one of the four men sentenced to death for gang-rape, torture and killing of a young medical student in 2012, in what came to be known as the Nirbhaya case, allegedly attempted suicide in Tihar jail on Wednesday.
Sharma allegedly took pills and tried to hang himself.
Last year, he had demanded more security in jail alleging that he had been beaten up by other inmates.
On December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old paramedic was fatally assaulted and gangraped by six persons in a moving bus in south Delhi and thrown out of the vehicle on that night.
She had died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.
One of the accused, Ram Singh, was found dead in a cell in Tihar Jail in March 2013 and proceedings against him were abated.
On August 31, 2013, another accused — a juvenile at the time of the crime — was convicted and sentenced to three years in a reformation home. He was released from the observation home in December last year.
