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Nirbhaya Rapists and Killers to Hang for 'Rarest of Rare' Crime, Rules SC

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The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence for all the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, which shook the conscience of the nation.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence for all the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, which shook the ‘collective conscience’ of the nation.

After a regular hearing for almost a year, the three-judge bench of Justices Dipak Misra, Ashok Bhushan and Banumathi upheld the death sentence for convicts Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh.

In resemblance to the Yakub Memon verdict, the courtroom was jam-packed with lawyers, anxious observer and journalists till the three judges entered at 2.02 pm.

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The grotesque behaviour of the convicts, the way they forced the victim for anal sex and oral sex was proven by the bite marks. There was an insertion of an iron rod in the victim’s private parts and her intestine was ruptured.

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The way the convicts had thrown the victims on the road in the cold winter night and had tried to run the bus her and her friend to remove any trace of the crime also worked against them.

Justice Misra said that this felt like a story from another world where the appetite for sex, the hunger for violence, the position of the empowered and the attitude of perversity, to say the least, are bound to shock the collective conscience.

As soon as the verdict was announced, the parents of the victim, who had attended all the hearings for five long years across all the courts, broke down. Although chased by cameramen and journalists, the couple said justice was done, albeit a little late.

A group of lawyers started clapping as journalists rushed out to break the news.