Finally, Nirbhaya gets justice! Delhi court has issues death warrants to the 4 convicts who were amongst the six men who brutally raped Nirbhaya and left her to die on a street.
The convicts will be hanged at 7 a.m on January 22, 2020!
According to the news agency ANI, While urging the court to issue the death warrants, the prosecution said, "In between issuance and execution of death warrants of the convicts want to file curative petitions they can do so." The counsel for two of the convicts — Mukesh and Vinay — said they were in process of filing curative petition in the apex court.
During the hearing, according to reports, the prosecution said there was no application pending before any court or the President right now by any of the convicts and the review petition of all the convicts was dismissed by the Supreme Court.
Four men, Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh were held guilty for raping Nirbhaya, torturing her and and killing on 16 December 2012.
Nirbhaya was a 23-year-old medical student, who was gang-raped in a moving bus. She was brutally tortured with an iron rod and was then dumped by the roadside by six men. She died in hospital days later.
However, one of them was a juvenile who was just short of 18 when the barbaric crime took place, was released after three years in a reform home. Although he was the one who tortured Nirbhaya with the iron rod.
the other one, Ram Singh, committed suicide by hanging himself in jail.
The Supreme Court, last month, dismissed the last review petition challenging the death sentence, by the convict Akshay Kumar Singh.
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