Death Sentence By High Court For 4 Delhi Gang Rape Convicts

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Four convicts in the Delhi gang-rape case

New Delhi:  The Delhi High Court has confirmed the death sentence for four men convicted of the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student in December, 2012, a crime that shook the nation to the core and led to massive changes in law.

Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Pawan and Akshay Thakur will hang for raping and killing the young woman on a moving bus, the High Court ruled, upholding a trial court order in September.

The woman, who was tortured for hours with an iron rod, died of her injuries nearly a fortnight later in a Singapore hospital. 

The court today agreed that the crime, which stirred angry protests in India and abroad, fell into the judicial system's "rarest of rare category" that allows capital punishment.

The four had filed appeals in the High Court against their death sentence, arguing that they had been falsely implicated.

They are being held at the capital's high-security Tihar Jail.

The fifth suspect in the case, bus driver Ram Singh, died in prison in March last year in an apparent suicide.

A sixth member of the group, who was a minor at the time of the assault, was sentenced to three years in a reformatory, the maximum penalty allowed under the country's juvenile laws.

India had an unofficial eight-year moratorium on capital punishment until last November, when the only surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai militant attacks was executed

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gkfNFz6o8

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Four convicts in the Delhi gang-rape case

New Delhi:  The Delhi High Court has confirmed the death sentence for four men convicted of the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student in December, 2012, a crime that shook the nation to the core and led to massive changes in law.

Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Pawan and Akshay Thakur will hang for raping and killing the young woman on a moving bus, the High Court ruled, upholding a trial court order in September.

The woman, who was tortured for hours with an iron rod, died of her injuries nearly a fortnight later in a Singapore hospital. 

The court today agreed that the crime, which stirred angry protests in India and abroad, fell into the judicial system's "rarest of rare category" that allows capital punishment.

The four had filed appeals in the High Court against their death sentence, arguing that they had been falsely implicated.

They are being held at the capital's high-security Tihar Jail.

The fifth suspect in the case, bus driver Ram Singh, died in prison in March last year in an apparent suicide.

A sixth member of the group, who was a minor at the time of the assault, was sentenced to three years in a reformatory, the maximum penalty allowed under the country's juvenile laws.

India had an unofficial eight-year moratorium on capital punishment until last November, when the only surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai militant attacks was executed

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gkfNFz6o8