Nirbhaya Gangrape

On December 16, a decade ago, a young woman was gang-raped on a bus in Delhi. She came to be called Nirbhaya, which means fearless. The gruesome assault made global headlines, led to weeks of protests and forced India to introduce stringent new laws. Watch the video to know where India stands today in terms of crimes against women

Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said it is time to introspect whether death row convicts could be allowed to 'manipulate' the system

The four men were hanged at 5.30 am on March 20 inside Delhi's Tihar Jail.

From the 16 December 2012 gangrape and murder incident to a last-minute courtroom drama and execution of the convicts, here's a chronology of events in the Nirbhaya case

Sixteen convicts have been executed in the country in the past three decades, including Yakub Memon, Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab.

The court was hearing the applications by Nirbhaya's parents and the Delhi government, seeking fresh death warrants for the convicts

The high court said all the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case have to be executed together

One of the accused in the case, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail

The jail authorities had informed the convicts that they had exhausted all legal remedies and were only left with the provision of filing a mercy petition against the death sentence

The jail authorities asked the convicts to file the mercy petition, if they wish, within seven days of receiving the notice

'It is a barbaric incident', Supreme Court said in its order in Nirbhaya gang-rape case

Nirbhaya gangrape case has reached the fag end of its argument