Delhi gang rape suspect kills himself THE main suspect in the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman on a New Delhi bus, an attack that horrified Indians and set off national protests, has committed suicide in jail. Ram Singh, who drove the bus on which the 23-year-old student was raped and fatally assaulted by a group of six men in December, hung himself with his own clothes, said G Sudhakar, the top police official at Tihar jail on Monday. Singh, along with four other men on trial with him on rape, murder and abduction charges, had been under a suicide watch, another jail official said on condition of anonymity. He said the five were being held in separate cells in separate buildings at the jail. Singh's lawyer, AP Singh, confirmed his client's death, saying he died at 5:30am. He denied that he had killed himself. The woman and a male friend were attacked after boarding the bus December 16 as they tried to return home after watching a movie, police say. The six men, the only occupants of the private bus, beat the man with a metal bar, raped the woman and used the bar to inflict massive internal injuries on her, police say. The victims were dumped naked on the roadside, and the woman died from her injuries two weeks later in a Singapore hospital. The brutal attack set off nationwide protests about India's treatment of women and spurred the government to hurry through a new package of laws to protect them. Singh's death comes as the trial is underway, with another hearing scheduled for Monday. There was no word if that would be affected.