All the six accused in the Delhigang-rape case have been arrested with the two men on the runbeing caught today, five days after the assault on the23-year-old paramedical student who was taken off ventilatorbut showed early signs of infection in a "mixed response".
As protests continued for the fifth day here including atIndia Gate and outside Congress President Sonia Gandhi's 10Janpath residence over the dastardly crime in a moving bus onSunday night, government vowed that the chargesheet in thecase will be filed by Delhi Police "quickly" seeking maximumpunishment of life term for the accused.
Akshay Thakur, the sixth and final accused who was one ofthe helpers in the bus, was arrested from his house in Bihar'sAurangabad district this evening.
"A joint team of Bihar police and Delhi police caughtthe accused Akshay Thakur from his home in Lahankarma villagein Tandwa police station of Aurangabad district," In-ChargeSuperintendent of Police, Aurangabad, Pranav Kumar told PTI.
Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar confirmed the arrest.
The other accused on the run was apprehended from UttarPradesh's Badaun and he has claimed to be a minor.
"The fifth accused has been arrested in the rape case.
His age is being verified before giving details," Kumar told apress conference in the presence of Home Secretary R K Singh.
Four accused have been already arrested.
Singh complimented Delhi Police for cracking the "blindcase" within a very short span of time.
But the heat was on the Police when the Delhi High Courtslammed it for being "evasive" in its probe status report inproviding details of its officers on patrol duty in the areacovered by the bus in which the girl was gang-raped for about40 minutes.
"She has shown some mixed response. She has shown somesigns of improvement and there are some signs ofdeterioration. She is off the ventilator at the moment. She isno more on ventilator. She is breathing spontaneously on herown," Dr B D Athani, Medical Superintendent of the Hospital,told a press conference. She was on ventilator in the ICUever since she was admitted on Sunday night.
On the deterioration in the girl's health, Athani saidthe level of Bilirubin, the yellow breakdown product of normalheme catabolism, has increased to five which is a cause ofconcern as it would affect liver.
"There are early signs of setting up of infection.
Infection seems to be setting in. These are early signs ofsepsis. That is a part of the blood culture and several other.
We have sent blood for test," he said.