Dec 16 gang rape: SC extends stay on two convicts' execution

While dismissing their appeals, the High Court had termed the offence as “extremely fiendish” and “unparallelled in the history of criminal jurisprudence” and said the “exemplary punishment” was the need of the hour.

It had said if this case was not “the rarest of rare cases” then “there is likely to be none”.

The 23-year-old paramedic, on the night of December 16, 2012, was brutally assaulted and gangraped by six persons in a moving bus in South Delhi and thrown out of the vehicle with her male friend. She died in a Singapore hospital on December 29, 2012.

The prime accused in the case Ram Singh was found dead in Tihar Jail in March last year and the trial against him was abated.