Justice delivered
Seven years and three months after a 23-year-old paramedical student was brutally raped and tortured, leading to her death a few days later, her parents have finally received some closure and feel justice has been served.
Seven years and three months after a 23-year-old paramedical student was brutally raped and tortured, leading to her death a few days later, her parents have finally received some closure and feel justice has been served.
The four men Mukesh Kumar Singh, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Pawan Kumar Gupta convicted in the brutal gangrape and murder of a Delhi medical student in 2012, were hanged to death at the Tihar Central Jail in Delhi in the wee hours today.
Among the people who gathered outside the jail was social activist Yogita Bhayana. She held a poster which read 'Nirbhaya has got justice. The other daughters still await'.
'My daughter will now rest in peace,' said the emotionally overwhelmed mother, appealing to all mothers to report sexual assault cases in family and society to support the daughters.
Punita Thakur in her plea has said she does not want to live the life of a widow as her husband is set to be hanged on March 20.
Mukesh Singh on Monday moved a court in Delhi seeking quashing of death penalty, claiming he was not in Delhi on the date of the crime and further alleged that he was tortured inside the Tihar jail.
Earlier, the Supreme Court today rejected the plea of convict Mukesh Singh, seeking restoration of all his legal remedies alleging that his earlier lawyers misled him.
Pawan Gupta had filed a mercy plea before President Ram Nath Kovind on March 2 after the Supreme Court dismissed the curative plea filed by him last week. In his plea he urged the court to convert his death sentence to life imprisonment on the basis of his juvenility at the time of crime.
Earlier, on Monday, the Patiala House Court had dismissed the pleas of Pawan Kumar Gupta and Akshay Kumar Singh, two of the convicts, which sought a stay on the execution of their death warrants.
Pawan Gupta has now filed a mercy plea before President Ram Nath Kovind. Meanwhile, the President had already dismissed the mercy plea of three other convicts Mukesh Kumar Singh, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Akshay Thakur.
