A court in India has awarded death penalty to all four convicts in December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder of 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in Indian capital.

New Delhi, Sept 13/Nationalturk – In a significant judgement, a trial court in India has awarded death penalty to all the four convicts in December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder of 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in Indian capital.

All the four accused Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh were sentenced to death by hanging at a fast-track court in New Delhi today.

“It was the rarest of rare crimes and deserved the death sentence,” the judge observed.

The court found all the four guilty of “cold-blooded murder”.

The 23-year-old girl was brutally raped by six persons in a moving bus in Indian capital (New Delhi) on December 16. She was later beaten with iron roads and thrown out of the bus in a naked position.  The girl had sustained critical injuries and died in a hospital in Singapore two weeks after the attack. However, before her death she had given a detailed statement to the police, which helped convict her attackers.

All the six rapists were arrested and one of them was found hanging in his prison cell in Tihar jail in March this year. Another, who was 17 at the time of the attack, was convicted by a juvenile court last month and sentenced to three years in a reform centre.

‘Judge awarded death after looking at gravity of incident’

“The judge awarded death to all the accused after looking at the gravity of the incident and inhuman torture.  The death penalty has been awarded under Section 302 (murder) as the girl had died due to the injuries inflicted by the convicts,” a lawyer said.

On September 10, the court held Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Singh and Pawan Gupta guilty on all counts including gangrape, murder, unnatural offence, dacoity, kidnapping and destruction of evidence on September 10.

While convicting the four rapists, the court had said that the injuries inflicted on the victim clearly show that their intention was not only to rape but also to kill the girl and their actions were premeditated.

We’re happy by verdict: Victim’s family

The father of the victim said he was happy that court has awarded death to the rapists of his daughter.

“We are happy. Justice has been delivered,” he told reporters outside the court.

The girl’s family members were present in the courtroom when the judge delivered the judgement.

The victims parents had been demanding awarding of death sentence to the rapists to prevent recurrence of such acts in future.

“We are happy but our fight is not over. We will always stand with the people in their fight against crimes against women,” said victim’s mother.
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Faiz Ahmad / NationalTurk India News

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