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Nirbhaya gang rape convicts get death sentence: Here's how Twitter reacted

The nation was shaken up by the news of this reprehensible gang rape

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Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur were convicted on charges of brutally raping and assaulting a 23-year-old paramedical student inside a bus that led to her death. Photo: PTI

Anshul New Delhi

Last Updated : May 12 2017 | 9:05 AM IST

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence on all four convicts in the vicious Nirbhaya gang-rape of December 2012 that led to her death and caused national outrage. It has been more than four years since the 23-year-old medical student was brutalised by a gang of six men on a moving bus in New Delhi.

A three-member bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice R Banumathi said the aggravating circumstances against Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur far outweighed the mitigating circumstances cited in their favour.

What happened on 16 December, 2012?

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