Delhi gang rape suspects 'did not mean to murder' Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur are all accused of kidnap, gang-rape and murder, while a sixth unnamed defendant is being treated as a juvenile and will be tried in a separate court. The judge Yogesh Khanna dismissed a defence plea for the trial to be conducted in public, upholding an earlier ruling that it should be in-camera. Outside the court, AP Singh claimed one of his clients, Mr Sharma, is in fact 17-years-old and should be tried in a juvenile court. He was not on the bus on the evening of the attack but at his home, he added. Mr Thakur, his second client, was on the bus as its cleaner at the time of the assault, but had neither raped nor attacked the victim. He had seen a "quarrel" but had not witnessed a sexual assault. When asked how the victim had suffered the injuries and how he explained forensic evidence of semen on the bus, Mr Singh said "anything can happen in a quarrel." "The rod was not intended to kill, there was no intention to murder...[the removal of] 95 per cent of the intestines is not intention to murder," he said. There is no evidence of rape or that she was killed because of assault. He will argue that, at worst, the defendants are guilty of 'culpable homicide' - which carries a sentence of between seven to 10 years. All five defendants are expected to return to court later this week when the court will officially frame charges drafted by the police.