No sooner had Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat pronounced the quantum of sentence, both in English and Hindi, the convicts were visibly stunned and lost control of themselves and started sobbing.
One of them Shahid started trembling and asked for a chair after the judge left the dais.
Within minutes, he collapsed. Water was sprinkled on his face and policemen helped him to the dispensary for medical aid.
As soon as family members of the convicts who were anxiously waiting outside to know the fate saw Shahid, propped on the shoulders of a policeman, they wailed and cursed the investigating officer of the case, media personnel and the policemen present there.