After 5 years the court finally announced the judgement in Nirbhaya case. The case was that a 23-year-old medical student on her way home from a movie was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi, now the Supreme Court has confirmed death for four convicts today.
The Delhi High Court earlier confirmed the death sentence for these four men convicted by a trial court for the gruesome gang-rape and murder of a young medical student in a moving bus in December 2012. But it was challenged in the Supreme court.
The court said the crime was “premeditated” and “callous” and one that “left an indelible scar on the social order.”
“The offence in the present case has indubitably been committed in an extremely fiendish , demoniac, barbaric and nefarious manner,” the judges said, adding, “debauchery, avarice, profligacy and viciousness appear to be the compelling forces” behind the crime.
The court rejected the appeal of the four men Mukesh, Vinay,Pawan and Akshay – against the trial court order, saying to extend a “protective arm to the convicts would be both unnatural and ludicrous.”
The convicts’ lawyers said they will move the Supreme Court against today’s verdict.
Outside court the woman father said, “We are very happy. This verdict will affect many other cases.” Her mother said, “Complete justice will be delivered when all the convicts are hanged to death.”
On December 16, 2012, a Sunday evening, the 23-year-old student and a male friend were attacked by six men after they boarded a private bus while going home from the cinema. Her friend was thrown to the back of the bus after being battered with an iron rod, which was later used to brutally violate her. The couple was then thrown from the bus.
The young woman died from her injuries 13 days later.
The brutality of the attack and her determination to survive so she could identify her attackers to the police, sparked large-scale angry street protests as well as soul-searching about the treatment of women in the country.
