Delhi Gang Rape -Death Sentence Awarded for 4 Convicts Friday Sep 13,2013

Death penalty was awarded to the four convicts in the December 16 gang rape and murder case by a fast track court in New Delhi on Friday Sep 13,2013
The Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna said while pronouncing the verdict -
“The convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh alias Thakur, Mukesh, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta alias Kaalu are sentenced to death for offence punishable under Section 302 [of the] Indian Penal Code. Accordingly, the convicts be hanged by neck till they are dead''

 

Quoting a Supreme Court judgment to examine whether the case in hand is a rarest of Rare One or Not, Mr. Khanna said: “The R-R [rarest of rare] test largely depends on the perception of society as to if it approves the awarding of death sentence to certain types of crimes. The court has to look into the factors like society’s abhorrence, extreme indignation and antipathy to certain types of cases viz., like the case in hand — of gang rape with brutal murder of a helpless girl by six men.” 

The judge said in the order, “The offence in the present case has been committed in an extremely brutal, grotesque, diabolical, revolting and thus dastardly manner so as to arouse intense and extreme indignation of society and has a grave impact of the crime on social order.”

 

All Four Convicted of Rape and Murder 

The Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna held at the fast track court in New Delhi dealing with the Dec16,2012 Gangrape and Murder of 23-year-old Paramedic(physiotherapy student) has convicted all the 4 persons - Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur — guilty of 13 offences including gangrape, unnatural offence, murder, dacoity, conspiracy, kidnapping and destruction of evidence.  

The arguments over the Quantum of Sentence will be heard by the court on Wed Sep 11,2013

Note

• The 6th accused was found dead in a cell in Delhi’s Tihar jail.

• A juvenile involved in the crime was on Aug 31 sent by the Juvenile Justice Board to a reform home for three years after it concluded that he was involved in rape and murder. The Juvenile Justice Board on Saturday Aug 31,2013 held the juvenile among them guilty and sent him to a correctional home for three years.He has been found guilty of rape and murder. The Board awarded him the maximum punishment provided in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.

 Fastrack Court New Delhi - Trial Timeline

Jan 2, 2013: CJI Altamas Kabir inaugurates fast track court (FTC) for speedy trial in the case.

*Jan 3: Police files charge sheet against five adult accused for offences including murder, gangrape, attempt to murder, kidnapping, unnatural offences and dacoity etc.

*Jan 5: Court takes cognisance of the charge sheet.

*Jan 7: Court orders in-camera proceedings.

*Jan 17: FTC starts proceedings against five adult accused.

*Jan 28: JJB says minority of an accused is proved.

*Feb 2: FTC frames charges against five adult accused.

*Feb 28: JJB frames charges against the minor.

*Mar 11: Ram Singh commits suicide in Tihar jail.

*Mar 22: Delhi HC allows national media to report FTC proceedings.

*Jul 5: Inquiry (trial) in JJB against juvenile in gangrape—cum—murder case and robbery matter concludes. JJB to pronounce verdict on July 11.

*Jul 8: FTC completes recording of testimonies of prosecution witnesses in the case.

*Jul 11: JJB defers to July 25 its verdict in the case against the minor.

JJB holds minor guilty of illegally confining and robbing a carpenter on December 16 night before allegedly taking part in the gangrape.

*Jul 25: JJB again defers to August 5 the verdict in gangrape—cum—murder case after a PIL was filed in the Supreme Court seeking fresh interpretation of term “juvenile“.

*Jul 31: SC asks JJB not to pronounce verdict in the case till it decides the PIL of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy.

*Aug 5: JJB defers verdict to August 19 pursuant to apex court’s direction.

*Aug 14: SC reserves order on maintainability of Swamy’s PIL.

*Aug 19: JJB again defers verdict to August 31.

*Aug 22: SC allows JJB to pronounce its verdict in the December 16 gangrape—cum—murder case involving the minor.

*Aug 31, 2013: JJB convicts the minor for gangrape and murder and awards three years term at a probation home

*Sep 10:All Four Convicted of Rape and Murder
*Sep 13:All Four Convicte of Rape and Murder awarded Death Sentence