Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32, were hanged at 5:30 this morning, giving closure to the family of a young medical student who was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012.
The rapists spent their time in isolation before conviction, officials said. They neither ate not slept before the execution.
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.
Asha Devi, mother of “Nirbhaya”, said that she went home and hugged her picture for hours.
We will continue our fight for justice for India’s daughters. Our wait for justice was painful and agonising. We finally got justice,” she told reporters.
“I hugged my daughter’s photo,” Asha Devi said. “The beasts have been hanged.”
“I want to thank everyone, judiciary, government for this. The courts proactively dismissed all petitions. The country was ashamed in 2012,” Asha Devi said.
