File photo of protests after the December 2012 Delhi gang-rape
One of the four men sentenced to death for the horrific rape and murder of a student in a moving bus in Delhi in December 2012, has alleged that he has been beaten up by other inmates at the Tihar Jail.
Vinay Sharma -- who claimed his left arm had been fractured in the attack on August 15 -- has moved court demanding security. His counsel has moved an application in court, which will hear the matter on Tuesday.
Sources in Tihar said Vinay had been engaged in a brawl with three other convicts but he had suffered no fracture. An internal report on the matter is being prepared.
Six men - one of them a juvenile - had initially been convicted in the Nirbhaya case.
In March 2013, one of the accused, Ram Singh -- who had allegedly been driving the bus which the woman and her male friend had been lured into and inside which the crime had taken place -- was found hanging in Tihar jail.
The authorities said he had committed suicide. But his family and lawyers had contended that he had been murdered.
The surviving four are lodged in high-security cells at the Tihar Jail, while their appeals against the death sentence are being heard by a court.
The torture and subsequent death of the 23-year-old para-medical student -- who was on way home on a winter evening after watching a movie at a south Delhi multiplex -- had shocked the country. Protests had been held across Delhi and other metros.
The juvenile, who had been a few months short of 18 when the crime was committed, had been given detention for three years -- which sparked furore and triggered moves to change the Juvenile Justice Act.
Fresh outrage had started last year when one of the convicts in the case, Mukesh Singh, made certain comments in a documentary that showed a marked lack of remorse.