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| Nirbhaya case: Four Indian men executed for 2012 Delhi bus rape and murder | Nirbhaya case: Four Indian men executed for 2012 Delhi bus rape and murder |
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| Four Indian men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi in 2012 have been hanged. | Four Indian men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi in 2012 have been hanged. |
| Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were sentenced to death by a trial court in 2013. | Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were sentenced to death by a trial court in 2013. |
| The four were hanged in the capital's high-security Tihar prison in the first executions in India since 2015. | The four were hanged in the capital's high-security Tihar prison in the first executions in India since 2015. |
| The victim died from her injuries days after being raped by six men on a moving bus. The incident caused outrage and led to new anti-rape laws in India. | The victim died from her injuries days after being raped by six men on a moving bus. The incident caused outrage and led to new anti-rape laws in India. |
| The 23-year-old physiotherapy student was dubbed Nirbhaya - the fearless one - by the press as she could not be named under Indian law. | The 23-year-old physiotherapy student was dubbed Nirbhaya - the fearless one - by the press as she could not be named under Indian law. |
| Six people were arrested for the attack. One of them, Ram Singh, was found dead in jail in March 2013, having apparently taken his own life. | Six people were arrested for the attack. One of them, Ram Singh, was found dead in jail in March 2013, having apparently taken his own life. |
| Another, who was 17 at the time of the attack, was released in 2015 after serving three years in a reform facility - the maximum term possible for a juvenile in India. | Another, who was 17 at the time of the attack, was released in 2015 after serving three years in a reform facility - the maximum term possible for a juvenile in India. |
| In the last few months, all four convicts filed petitions in the Supreme Court in a bid to reduce their sentences to life imprisonment. But the top court rejected their petitions, leaving the men with no other legal recourse. A last-minute appeal to have the death penalties commuted was also rejected hours before the executions. | |
| Minutes after the convicts were hanged on Friday morning, the victim's mother said, "I hugged my daughter's photograph and told her we finally got justice." | |
| Her father said that his "faith in the judiciary had been restored". | |
| Security was tight outside the prison with a large number of police and paramilitary personnel deployed to maintain law and order. | |
| A group of people carrying placards had gathered outside the prison gates and began celebrating after the executions were announced. | |
| Some chanted "death to rapists" and waved posters thanking the judiciary. | |
| What happened to Nirbhaya? | |
| The student boarded an off-duty bus at around 20:30 local time on 16 December 2012 with a male friend. They were returning home after watching a film at an upscale mall. | |
| The six men, who were already on board, attacked the couple, taking turns to rape the woman, before brutally assaulting her with an iron rod. Her friend was beaten. | |
| They were then thrown out onto the roadside to die. Some passers-by found them naked and bloodied and called the police. | |
| Two weeks later - after widespread protests that demanded India to reckon with its treatment of women - the victim died in a hospital in Singapore, where she was taken for further treatment after her condition deteriorated in a Delhi hospital. |