Nirbhaya Rapists To Hang, Says Top Court, Refers To Her 'Dying Declaration'
The Supreme Court has confirmed death for four convicts in Nirbhaya gang-rape case in Delhi. A 23-year-old student was gang-raped and tortured on her way back home. Exactly four years, four months and 18 days after a brutal gang-rape and murder on the streets of the Capital shook the nation’s conscience, the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty awarded to the four convicts in the December 16, 2012, incident. The case, in the aftermath of which millions of young Indians thronged Delhi’s streets reclaiming a safe city for the women, forced the government to make strict and punitive laws against women harassment and brought the issue of women’s safety to the centre stage. The counsel for the accused, however, said that they will appeal against the verdict. The Supreme Court on Friday ordered that all four convicts in the gang-rape and murder case of a 23-year-old paramedic student be sent to the gallows. While pronouncing the verdict the court obser...
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