Nirbhaya Gang-rape: Rapists to be hanged!!

New Delhi, July 09: The Supreme Court today justified the death sentence of the rape accused in 2012 Delhi gangrape case, the 4 convicts will be hanged to death.

They were sentenced earlier by the court for the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in Delhi on December 16, 2012.

The court was trialling the review petition filed by 3 of the 4 prisoners soliciting to cut of their death sentence to a life term.

However, the victim's(Nirbhaya) mother today said that she was confident that the judgement will be in their favour.

"It has been 6 years since the incident. Similar incidents are still taking place every day, our system has failed us. We are confident that the judgement will be in our favour & we will get justice," Asha Devi, mother of 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim said subsequently of the verdict today.

The father of the victim, Badrinath Singh, invoked the Prime Minister to take tactile stride against atrocities towards women and young girls.

The Supreme Court had on May 5, 2017 approved the verdict of the Delhi High Court and the trial court sentencing the 4 men - Mukesh (29), Pawan Kumar Gupta (22), Vinay Sharma (23) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) to death for raping the woman, deadly injuring and leaving her to die by the road.

The accused had then petitioned the court to review their sentences, saying it was "cold-blooded killing in the name of Justice". The court agreed to hear their request in November 2017.