Living with 42 years of guilt, meet Aruna Shanbaug’s assailant Sohan Lal

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