Radhika Tanwar murder case: Key accused sent to judicial custody

A Delhi court today sent to judicial custody till March 26 Vijay alias Ram Singh, the prime accused in the murder of Delhi University student Radhika Tanwar near Dhaula Kuan early this month.

Vijay was produced before metropolitan magistrate Pawan Singh Rajawat after his four-days police custody expired today.

The police submitted that the probe in the case is going on and the accused may be remanded to judicial custody for 10 days till March 26 as three co-accused in the case Tabreez, Ashraf and Sheku are also under judicial custody till then.

Vijay, 25, hailing from Viswan village in Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested by the police from Tagore Nagar in suburban Mumbai's Vikroli on March 11 and he was remanded to police custody for interrogation on March 12.

Co-accused Tabreez, Ashraf and Sheku, who allegedly helped the key accused in the offence, were also sent to judicial custody on March 12.

Police had earlier told the court that the mobile phone used by Vijay, has to be recovered to unearth the entire conspiracy.

Tanwar, 20, was shot dead on March 5 outside Ramlal Anand College in South Delhi's Dhaula Kuan after she allegedly snubbed Vijay when he had approached her to strike a conversation.

Vijay "nurtured deep grudge" against Radhika after he was beaten up for harassing her and used to tell his friends that whenever he gets an opportunity, he would avenge the humiliation, the police had said.