Delhi Bus Rape: India Hangs 4 Notorious Gang-Rapists
March 20, 2020
5:27 am
Seven years after the gang-raping to death of a physiotherapy student in India, the rapists were hanged to death at 5.30 Friday morning in Tihar jail in New Delhi.
The Indian Express newspaper said the men Mukesh (31), Pawan Gupta (24), Vinay Sharma (25) and Akshay Kumar Singh (33), were hanged hours after their petitions were rejected by the Supreme Court, Delhi High Court and lower court.
At around 4.30 am, a a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court dismissed the petition of death row convict Pawan Gupta filed against rejection of his second mercy plea by the President.
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