New Delhi, Jan 15: In a daring feat, Zee News correspondent Piyush Padmakar and cameraman Amit Badhwar reached and questioned Sajal Jain in his hospital room last night, when even the Gujarat Police was denied access to him. Meanwhile, Gujarat Police today arrested Sajal, prime accused in the Ahmedabad rape case, at Delhi’s Apollo Millenium Hospital. Sajal Jain told Zee News that he was innocent and that in fact one of his friends raped Bijal Joshi.

Sajal Jain admitted that he was in Ahmedabad on December 31 and that he had past relations with Bijal Joshi. He further admitted that he had called Bijal to a hotel, where he and his friends consumed liquor in her presence. However, he denied that he had gone to drop Bijal home. According to him, Bijal was raped between 2-4 am on New Year, when his friends were with her. He got worried when Bijal did not reach home even at 4 am and contacted her sister Vaishali and his friend Monty. Sajal clarified that Bijal was with Monty during the period.

At the moment Monty is in the custody of Gujarat Police.

Jain and four of his friends are accused of allegedly raped 24-year-old Bijal after getting her intoxicated at a hotel owned by the father of one of them. The girl hung herself to death at her home on January 07 and left a note in which she said "Jain and his friends were the culprits and they should be punished".