Watch how India sympathized with Delhi rape case accused Ram Singh on TV

21 December, 2012

Here is Ram Singh, who was at the wheel of the bus, in which his friends raped and mercilessly attacked with an iron rod 23-year-old medical student on Sunday night in Delhi. It feels horrible and pathetic to hear that India had once sympathized with this soul and supported him in a TV reality show.

AS REVEALED by a Times of India report, the main accused of the Delhi gang-rape case Ram Singh had been a face on national television. The person had appeared in a reality TV show on Star Plus known as “Aap Ki Kachcheri” – a show that was popularly known for having retired IPS officer Kiran Bedi as main host. The theme of the show revolved around the concept of pending cases in Indian courts where Ms. Bedi used to work as a mediator between two parties.

In this regard, one of the show’s episode titled “Ram Singh vs Gangadhar” brought forward a case where the driver Ram Singh accused employer Gangadhar of cheating him of medical expenses. Reportedly Ram Singh used to drive an RTV owned by Gangadhar.

After an accident in which Ram Singh broke his hand and had to undergo medical treatment for long, he accused Gangadhar of not helping him out financially during the treatment. Gangadhar, on the other hand, had an argument blaming Ram Singh to be ill-behaved, drunk and a rowdy driver. Gangadhar even tried proving that at the time of accident Ram Singh was driving the bus unlawfully after he had been terminated from his service two days ago - an accusation Ram Singh doesn’t agree to.

Through the show, it was revealed to the audience that Ram Singh had developed permanent disabilities in both his hands and had claimed a compensation of Rs 12 lacs from his employer by registering a case in labour court.

A YouTube video of the episode shows Kiran Bedi. It is sad to believe that for a day, the viewers were driven to sympathize with the person who fostered a criminal mind – somebody we all would like to see punished with the hardest of the punishments available. Most media personalities and common men alike, who are calling for judgment today, had emotionally taken a stand in favour of Ram Singh during the episode.

Driven by prejudice and pre-conceived notion Gangadhar’s version describing Ram Singh as indisciplined driver was ignored. Despite Singh agreeing to having developed serious disabilities in both hands, no one advocated for revoking his license. Ram Singh, the devil who was driving the private bus on Sunday night around the posh localities of Delhi when his friends took turns to rape a poor girl, had been let loose by Indians and Indian law only out of sympathy. Should we as a nation have been stricter that day?

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Ankit Rajput

video is not available. Can you share the video.

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video removed!

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Amin

Once identified , the rapists deserves to be stoned to death if the authories that be really want to deter the criminals of the sort and allow the women folk of the country live in peace.

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Anand Krishnan

Justice delay means Justice denied, and above all the main accused is OUR SYSTEM, DIRTY POLITICS along with weak governance and administrations by which the innocent people finally has to become SUFFERER in Society - Unity must to make a Safe India were Women`s / Girls or Citizens can walk safely in Streets/ Societies

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Haridevan

Media must exercise more care and do some on ground investigation before they support any cause as the public presumes that this has been done and places a lot of trust on media. As one of the four pillars of democracy this is their sacred duty to the citizens of India who rely on them.

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Usha Padiyar

The side of Ram Singh's employer Gangadhar, should have been investigated more seriously and strictly at the time that case was going on. Gangadhar must be feeling satisfied today,on learning about the same man exposed before the whole nation now for what he is, not only an ill -behaved, drunk and rowdy driver, as Gangadhar had accused then, but worse, an abettor and accomplice in a brutal rape case ! What does Kiran Bedi , the Saviour of this ' poor,permanently disabled(?) Labourer, out of her prejudice towards employers, say now ? In this present context, the complaint of the employer Gangadhar should also be taken into account to show Ram Singh as a notorious, irresponsible bus driver before the court in the present case. I hope that at least, he must have been chucked out by the school, for whom he was working, and his Driving License must have been cancelled by now, as immediate action, by the concerned authorities. Or no ? Ram Singh may say he has not taken part personally in the assault on the girl and her boy companion, but he had called the couple and kept on driving while they were being attacked and abused, so no concession should be made to him. All these people should be sentenced to death, or life imprisonment with rigorous punishment for their entire life, not just 7-10 years!

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Aarti Talukdar

Is his case still running in Labour Court? Was the employer forced to give him money at that time? Its a shame that he was driving even after his hands was supposedly crippled in that accident. Why didnt the police register a case of negligence and drunken driving at that time?

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Sushil Bajpai

The person should be hanged till death. Nobody has any sympathy for him now.

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