Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi : The Supreme Court upheld High Court and trial court decision to award death to all four convicts in Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case December 16, 2012. Justice Dipak Mishra, Justice R Bhanumati and justice Ashok Bhushan bench SC upholds Delhi HC verdict awarding death penalty to four convicts in December 16, 2012 gangrape-cum-murder case. Nature and manner of the crime devastated social trust, calls in ‘rarest of rare’ category warranting death penalty. SC confirms findings of the trial court and Delhi High Court against the four convicts in the case. Aggravating circumstances outweigh mitigating circumstances in the case; offence created “tsunami of shock”. The judgement was received with an applause from those in the court. he convicts had been awarded death sentence by the fast track court, which was upheld by the Delhi High Court. The execution was stayed after the four convicts — Mukesh (27), Pawan (20), Vinay (21) and Akshay (29) — moved the top court. The fifth accused, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide while in jail. The sixth accused, who was a minor at the time of crime, was granted three years in a correction facility by Juvenile Justice Board. He was released from the home in November 2015.
A 23-year-old paramedic was brutally assaulted and raped by six persons in a moving bus in south Delhi and thrown out of the vehicle with her male friend on the night of December 16, 2012. She had died in a Singapore hospital on December 29 that year.
One of the accused, Ram Singh, hanged himself in prison, while another person, who was a juvenile at the time of the crime, was convicted in August last year and will serve the maximum sentence of three years in a reform home
