Nirbhaya Squad members have been tasked with maintaining a strict vigil in crowded areas like bus stands, railway stations and malls to ensure safety and security of women. Citizens can dial '103' and report cases of eve-teasing, molestation and other such offences.
Eight years ago on December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, later known as Nirbhaya (the fearless one), was gangraped by six men on a moving bus. Her male friend was also assaulted following which both of them were thrown on the road. Thirteen days later, Nirbhaya succumbed to her injuries.
Nirbhaya case: The police had identified one Dinesh Yadav of Uttar Pradesh's Noida, as the owner of the bus, who confirmed that he owned a bus that had red seat covers, yellow curtains and Yadav written on its side.
Nirbhaya case: The executions of the four convicts were carried out after the men exhausted every possible legal avenue to escape the gallows. Their desperate attempts only postponed the inevitable by less than two months after the first date of execution was set for January 22.
Nirbhaya's parents did a countdown as the time of the execution of the four convicts neared. This is the first time that four men have been hanged together in Tihar Jail. The executions were carried out after the convicts exhausted every possible legal avenue to escape the gallows.
The four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case were hanged to death at Delhi's Tihar Jail in the wee hours of Friday. Following the execution, hangman Pawan Jallad left for Uttar Pradesh's Meerut amid tight security arrangements.
Riteish Deshmukh was one of the first Bollywood celebrities who took to Twitter and react on the hanging of Nirbhaya rape convicts.
A crowd gathered outside Delhi's Tihar Jail to pay their tribute to Nirbhaya as her rapists finally got hanged to death after 8 years of wait. The four convicts -- Akshay, Vinay, Mukesh and Pawan -- were executed at 5.30 am on Friday.
Nirbhaya finally got justice today as the four convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case were hanged till death at the Tihar jail. Reacting to the execution of the convicts, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi thanked the judiciary and said she hugged the picture of her daughter as soon as the Supreme Court rejected the petitions filed by the rapists.
HANGED! Nirbhaya's rapists have finally been executed. The four men -- Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, and Akshay Kumar Singh were hanged at 5.30 am on Friday.
Lawyer AP Singh resorted to all sorts of tactics even on the last day, and in fact the last minute as he knocked the doors of the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court for late-night hearing.
The brutal gang-rape and murder of a physiotherapy student in December 2012, which shook the conscience of the nation before gathering dust for several years, is going to come to an end in few hours with the hanging of the four convicts in the case.
This will be for the first time when four convicts will be hanged together in India. The four men -- Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, and Akshay Kumar Singh -- are set to be hanged at 5.30 am in Delhi's Tihar jail on Friday.
"I want justice too. Kill me too. I don't want to live. My husband is innocent. Why is the society after us?", she cried hysterically outside the court. "We were living with the hope that we will get justice but we are being killed everyday for the past seven years," she said.
Nirbhaya case: During the hearing, public prosecutor Irfan Ahmad told the court that Pawan Gupta's curative has been rejected by the Supreme Court adding that the second mercy petition of Pawan and Akshay Singh Thakur has not been entertained by the President of India.
Nirbhaya case: Four convicts -- Vinay, Mukesh, Akshay, and Pawan are scheduled to be hanged by the noose on March 20 at 5:30 a.m. for brutally raping and murdering a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on December 16, 2012.
While the widowed mother of brothers Ram Singh and Mukesh Singh has left the locality and gone back to her family in Rajasthan, the families of Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta still live in the slum colony. The four Nirbhaya case convicts are slated to be hanged on Thursday, at 5:30 am.
Nirbhaya case: The four convicts in the 2012 case -- Mukesh Singh, Akshay Singh Thakur, Pawan Gupta, and Vinay Sharma -- were earlier scheduled to be hanged in January. The date was later postponed to February and then to March, this year.
In another manoeuvre to delay the ensuing death sentence slated for Friday, the death-row convicts, through their counsel A.P. Singh, once again knocked on the doors of the trial court seeking stay on their hanging on the grounds that their legal remedies are pending.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved order on the plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, challenging a trial court order dismissing his plea that he was not in the national capital when the crime took place on December 16, 2012.
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