New Delhi: Seven years after a young medical student was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in New Delhi, a crime that shocked India, four of her killers were hanged at 5.30 am at Tihar Jail today. The pre-dawn execution took place less than two hours after the Supreme Court dismissed the final petition of the convicts.
In the hours before that, the convicts had also petitioned the Delhi High Court, where their lawyer cited Coronavirus for the lack of proper documents for a hurriedly-filed appeal. Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32, were hanged simultaneously at Delhi’s Tihar Jail, where they spent the last few hours in isolation in separate cells, barely eating.
