Nirbhaya Case Convicts

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that juveniles were being treated "rather too leniently" in the country, and that the legislature has "not learnt any lessons" from the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case. In an order passed on September 11, Justice Subodh Abhyankar of the high court's Indore bench made these strongly-worded observations while dismissing an appeal filed by a man against the lower court's sentence in the case of four-year-old girl's rape in 2017. The convict was 17 years old at the time of the rape incident in 2017. He escaped from a juvenile correction home in 2019 along with seven other boys, six months after being sentenced. Expressing displeasure over this development, the high court said, "As a parting note, this Court is once again at pains to observe that juveniles in this country are being treated rather too leniently, and that the Legislature, to the utter misfortune of the victims of such crimes, has still not learnt any lessons from the horrors of ...

Eleven years since the gut-wrenching Nirbhaya rape incident, the father of the victim said a lot has changed, but a lot has also remained the same when it comes to the police and prosecution system. He said that the Narendra Modi government may have taken the country to historic highs, but till now it has not been able to do anything special when it comes to women's safety and stopping cruelty against them. On the night of December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy trainee (name changed to Nirbhaya) was raped and mutilated by six men inside a moving bus in South Delhi and thrown outside. She died on December 29 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. On Saturday, 11 years after the incident, Nirbhaya's father paid a tearful tribute to his daughter in his village in Ballia district. "Eleven years after the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder, nothing has changed in the country and even today daughters and women are not safe," the man told PTI. "Changing the law won't change anythin

Delhi has a unique situation where the police report to the central government rather than the state government

While we have every reason to heave a sigh of relief and celebrate the fact that justice has been done, we should not be blind to the fact that we still have a long way to go

Nirbhaya rape convicts were were hanged to death on Friday at 5.30 am in New Delhi's Tihar Jail.

None of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case put up any resistance when they were being taken to the gallows on Friday but Vinay Sharma broke down, a Tihar jail official said. The convicts also did not show any signs of anxiety on the night before their execution and skipped breakfast on Friday, he said. Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) - convicted for the gang rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern in 2012 - were hanged at 5.30 am. "The four convicts showed no signs of anxiety last evening or put up any resistance while being taken to the gallows for hanging. Vinay broke down when he was being taken for the execution," the official said. Anticipating that the convicts might show some resistance, strongmen had been kept on standby, he said. According to the official, only Sharma and Mukesh Singh had dinner on Thursday night. "Vinay and Mukesh had their dinner properly on time (on Thursday night). The meal compri

Hours before their execution, the Supreme Court dismissed their final petition in a hearing, held after midnight, bringing the curtains down on a 7-year-old case that had left the nation in shock

The four men were hanged at 5.30 am on March 20 inside Delhi's Tihar Jail.

Some lawyers also supported strict punishments and defended continuing capital punishment

The four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case were hanged to death at 5:30 a.m. in Delhi's Tihar jail on Friday

From the 16 December 2012 gangrape and murder incident to a last-minute courtroom drama and execution of the convicts, here's a chronology of events in the Nirbhaya case

Sixteen convicts have been executed in the country in the past three decades, including Yakub Memon, Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab.

In a sign of the public outrage over the case that had shaken the conscience of an entire nation, several people had gathered outside the Tihar jail in the wee hours on Friday to welcome the hanging

The plea claimed that there is further new evidence which shows that the state has concealed certain facts in the case from the court

The bench said pendency of proceedings, initiated by the convicts or involving them at various fora is untenable in law as a ground for staying execution

A bench comprising justices Manmohan and Sanjeev Narula said there has been gross delay in filing mercy plea and requested the counsel appearing for the convicts to present a substantial legal point

The court was informed by the public prosecutor that second mercy pleas of Akshay and Pawan, were rejected on the ground that the first such plea was entertained and considered on merit.

On March 5, a trial court had issued fresh death warrants for March 20 at 5.30 am

The high court on Wednesday said there were no grounds to interfere in the detailed and reasoned order of the trial court

A six-judge bench headed by Justice NV Ramana dismissed the plea, saying "no case is made out"