Sohan Lal Singh is the rape accused of Aruna Shanbaug who died in the King Edward Memorial hospital in Mumbai after 42 years in coma. (Source: Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)
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Sohan Lal's residence in Hapur district. Sohan Lal says he learnt of Shanbaug’s death only after a journalist from the Sakal newspaper came looking for him earlier this week. (Source: Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)
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Sohan Lal claims, “Everything happened in a fit of rage. We both hit each other. There was no rape… they beat me up in the police station and kept saying it was rape. I did not rape her, it must have been someone else." (Source: Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)
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Sohan Lal Singh said, “I gave up non-vegetarian food, bad habits like smoking bidis and drinking. I had a daughter before I was sentenced, and she died while I was in jail. She died because I made a mistake." (Source: Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)
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Sohan Lal's younger son Ravindra says his mother told him about the case when he was 12. “She told me I should forgive my father, that the papers were exaggerating his crime." (Source: Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)
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Sohan Lal's elder son. Sohan Lal spent 7 years at the Yerawada jail in Pune. (Source: Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)
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“My son would tell us these things and my wife would cry. I wish I had died. My sons would have taken care of her. I am tired of the memories, I want to die now," said Sohan Lal. (Source: Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)
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“Aruna didiji was always picking on me. She knew I was scared of dogs… there were other sweepers, but she picked me each time the dogs had to be fed or their cages swept. I told the doctor in charge and my supervisor to transfer me, I complained about her but no one listened," says Sohan Lal. (Source: Express photo by Gajendra Yadav)
Read full story: Aruna Shanbaug’s assailant is alive; tired of memories, I want to die, he says