Justice delivered
Seven years and three months after a 23-year-old paramedical student was brutally raped and tortured, leading to her death a few days later, her parents have finally received some closure and feel justice has been served.
Seven years and three months after a 23-year-old paramedical student was brutally raped and tortured, leading to her death a few days later, her parents have finally received some closure and feel justice has been served.
The four men Mukesh Kumar Singh, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Pawan Kumar Gupta convicted in the brutal gangrape and murder of a Delhi medical student in 2012, were hanged to death at the Tihar Central Jail in Delhi in the wee hours today.
Among the people who gathered outside the jail was social activist Yogita Bhayana. She held a poster which read 'Nirbhaya has got justice. The other daughters still await'.
'My daughter will now rest in peace,' said the emotionally overwhelmed mother, appealing to all mothers to report sexual assault cases in family and society to support the daughters.
Punita Thakur in her plea has said she does not want to live the life of a widow as her husband is set to be hanged on March 20.
The brutal gangrape and murder case in which the four convicts are sentenced is of December 16, 2012, when a paramedic student was brutally gangraped by a group of five men on a moving bus. The sixth convict was a juvenile. Later the victim succumbed to her injuries in the hospital.
However, reacting to the SG's remarks, convicts lawyer AP Singh said to the court, "Why only in this case there is a hurry? Justice hurried is justice buried."
The Tihar Jail authorities approached the High Court and challenged the trial court’s Friday order which had stayed the execution of the convicts till further orders.
Right after the rejection of Sharma's mercy plea was rejected, another convict Akshay Thakur had filed a mercy petition before the President.
'We don't find any ground to entertain this petition. Once the issue of juvenile is examined and rejected by courts it can't be raised again,' the apex court said.
