Taking suo motu cognisance of the shocking case of the gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus on Sunday, the Delhi High Court today asked the Police Commissioner to file a status report on the case within two days. The court also approved the setting up of five fast-track courts for tackling rape cases in the city.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had yesterday urged the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court to take urgent action in making the fast-track courts functional. She said, the city government had already approved setting up of the fast-track courts to deal with the cases of sexual assault on women and to provide speedy justice and conviction of the guilty.
Referring to the gang rape and brutal assault on the girl on Sunday evening, Ms Dikshit suggested to Justice Murugesan that bail should not be given to those involved in heinous crimes against women.

Meanwhile In a crucial development in the Delhi gang-rape case, three other arrested accused Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma have confessed to their crime. The three were produced before a court in Saket today. Reports said, Vinay Sharma confessed to beating up the victim and her male friend and demanded that he be hanged till death. While Pawan refused to undergo an identification parade, he along with Vinay told the court that they were ashamed of their act.
The third accused, Mukesh who is the brother of main accused Ram Singh also refused to undergo identification parade. Ram Singh, the driver of the bus, was yesterday sent to five-day police custody. The Court remanded Pawan and Vinay to four-day police custody
while Mukesh was sent to Tihar jail for 14 days in judicial custody.
Meanwhile, in a related development one of the two absconding accused Akshay Thakur and Raju has reportedly been detained in Aurangabad in Bihar.