Nirbhaya gets final justice. Nothing but Death for rapists

July 09, 2018

The Apex Court has rejected the review petition on the death sentence filed by three of the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case. The court had upheld the death sentences on May 5, 2017 following which the convicts had filed a review petition. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan delivered its judgment on the pleas of Mukesh (29), Pawan Gupta (22) and Vinay Sharma (23). The four death row convict, Akshay Kumar Singh (31), did not file a review petition against the apex court's May 5, 2017 order. The top court in its 2017 verdict had upheld the capital punishment awarded to them by the trial court and confirmed by the Delhi high court in the case of gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student on December 16, 2012. She was gang-raped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a running bus in South Delhi by six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road. She succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012, at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. One of the accused in the case, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail here. The juvenile, who was among the accused, was convicted by a juvenile justice board. He was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term.