Nirbhaya gangrape case: Supreme Court upholds death penalty of rapists

Nirbhaya gangrape case - The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed review petitions filed by three convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, upholding a death sentence handed to them.

A Bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan delivered the judgment on the pleas of Mukesh (29), Pawan Gupta (22) and Vinay Sharma (23) in the case that rocked the nation six years ago and paved way for stringent laws against sexual harassment in the country.

The fourth death row convict, Akshay Kumar Singh (31), has not filed a review petition against the apex court's May 5, 2017, judgment.

he Supreme Court had said the "brutal, barbaric and diabolic nature" of the crime could create a "tsunami of shock" to destroy a civilised society.

In its 2017 verdict, the apex court had upheld the capital punishment awarded to them by the Delhi High Court and a trial court in the case of the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student on December 16, 2012.

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