New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today upheld the death sentence of four convicts in the December 16, 2012 gang-rape case. A division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani pronounced the verdict.
A 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was gang-raped, and brutally sexually assaulted by six men, including a juvenile, in a moving bus. The accused then threw her and her male companion out of the vehicle, stripped of clothing, to die by the roadside on the cold December night.
The woman died of grave intestinal injuries on December 29, 2012 at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital, where she was airlifted for specialised treatment.
One of the six accused was found dead in a cell in Delhi’s Tihar Jail. A juvenile involved in the crime was on August 31, 2013 sent by the Juvenile Justice Board to a reform home for three years, the maximum term under the juvenile law.
The trial court had on September 13, 2013 awarded the death sentence to Mukesh (26), Akshay Thakur 28), Pawan Gupta (19) and Vinay Sharma (20). The court had then referred the case to the high court for confirmation of the sentence. The charge sheet was filed on January 03 last year.
Bureau Report
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