Police invokes murder charges against gangrape accused

December 29, 2012 15:08

The Delhi Police today invoked murder charges against the six men allegedly involved in the gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus after she died in a Singapore hospital and decided to file the charge sheet in court on January three. Police said it will be their endeavour to ensure the "harshest punishment in the book" to the culprits.

"We hope to file the charge sheet by the 3rd of Jan., 2013. Section 302 of the IPC, which is the penal section for murder, has been added in the case," Dharmendra Kumar, special commissioner of police (law and order), said.

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