Delhi Gang-Rape Case:Delhi High Court verdict confirms convicts' death sentence Thursday March 13,2014

 

The Delhi High Court has confirmed death sentence for four men convicted by a trial court of the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student in December, 2012 on Thursday March 13,2014

 

• Mukesh

• Vinay Sharma

•  Pawan and 

• Akshay Thakur 

 

were given the capital punishment by the lower court in September 13 ,2013 for the gang-rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a moving bus. 

 

The young woman died of her injuries nearly a fortnight later in a Singapore hospital. 

The court had said that the crime, which stirred widespread protests over sexual crimes against women in the country, fell into the judicial system's "rarest of rare category" that allows capital punishment.

The four adult convicts (from left) Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta (face covered), Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh being taken to court

 

The four filed appeals in the High Court, seeking to overturn the verdict, with the defence arguing that the men had been falsely implicated.

The convicts are being held at the capital's high-security Tihar Jail.

The fifth suspect in the case, bus driver Ram Singh, died in prison in March 2013 in an apparent suicide.

A sixth member of the group, who was a minor at the time of the assault, was sentenced to three years in a reformatory, the maximum penalty allowed under the country's juvenile laws.