Supreme Court ruling today on the reprieve appeal of Nirbhaya convicts
A two-judge Supreme Court bench will give its ruling on the appeal against conviction and death sentence of the four-Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh.
There were two more convicts in the case-Ram Singh, the driver of the bus and the one who was a juvenile. While Ram Singh committed suicide in the Tihar jail, the sixth accused walked out of a correction home in December, 2015 after spending there three years.
The brutal crime committed on December 16, 2013 against the girl, dubbed Nirbhaya by media, had created public furore for a more stringent law against sexual assault of women.
Nirbhaya, who was accompanied by a male friend, was brutally gang-raped by six persons and tortured to the extent that her intestine was pulled out.
She and her friend were then thrown out of the bus. .
She died days later in a Singapore hospital on December 29, 2012.
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