Nirbhaya rapists to hang on Jan 22: Court
January 07,2020A Delhi court on Tuesday issued death warrants against all four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case.
Additional
Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora while issuing death warrants directed
the convicts to be hanged on January 22 at 7 a.m. at Tihar Jail.
A
23-year-old woman was brutally gangraped and tortured on December 16,
2012, which led to her death. Six accused were arrested and charged with
sexual assault and murder. One of the accused was a minor and appeared
before a juvenile justice court, while another accused committed suicide
in Tihar Jail.
Four of the convicts were sentenced to death by a
trial court in September 2013, and the verdict confirmed by the Delhi
High Court in March 2014 and was upheld by the Supreme Court in May 2017
which also dismissed their review petitions.