The owner of the bus, in which a 23-year-old girl was gangraped here on December 16 last year, deposed as a prosecution witness in the fast-track court here on Thursday and said the vehicle was in continuous custody of its driver Ram Singh on the day of the incident and the following day also.
Ramadhar, the carpenter who was lured into the bus and robbed by the accused who later gangraped the girl, also deposed as a prosecution witness and identified the four accused present in the court as those who had robbed and assaulted him on the same night.
Bus owner Dinesh Yadav was produced before additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna.
Yadav is lodged in Tihar jail in connection with a case of cheating and forgery in getting his vehicles registered and plying them on Delhi roads illegally.
“Accused Ram Singh (deceased) was the driver of the bus in the month of December 2012. One Akshay was the helper. I had not seen Akshay and hence cannot identify him. This bus was being parked by accused Ram Singh near his house because this bus was attached with the school and also with an office as a chartered bus to take officials from Delhi to Noida and that the accused used to pick up the students early in the morning,” he told the court.
Ramadhar also told the judge that the persons present in the court room are the same who had robbed him on the night of December 16, 2012.
Meanwhile, a lawyer, defending two accused in the case sought security claiming that a Jharkhand-based naxal group has threatened him.
Advocate A.P. Singh, who represents accused Akshay Thakur and Vinay Sharma, has also sought a high-level enquiry into the incident.
The advocate had annexed a letter, the contents of which were incoherent, purportedly giving the threat to him and the court among others.
“Let the police also investigate the matter,” the judge said.