India, May 8 -- NEW DELHI

A Delhi court on Friday sent a 23-year-old man, accused of the rape and murder of a woman in south Delhi's Kailash Hills, to four days of police custody, noting that it was imperative to interrogate the accused further to unearth the complete truth.

Judicial magistrate first class Deepika Thakran of Saket courts passed the order on a plea moved by additional public prosecutor Akashmani Tripathi, after the end of accused Rahul Meena's four-day judicial custody.

Tripathi, in the plea, said that a gait pattern analysis-a study on the walking movement of a person-needs to be conducted by the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) to clearly identify the accused through the CCTV footage. "His walking movement n...