Nirbhaya Verdict

While we have every reason to heave a sigh of relief and celebrate the fact that justice has been done, we should not be blind to the fact that we still have a long way to go

Nirbhaya rape convicts were were hanged to death on Friday at 5.30 am in New Delhi's Tihar Jail.

Hours before their execution, the Supreme Court dismissed their final petition in a hearing, held after midnight, bringing the curtains down on a 7-year-old case that had left the nation in shock

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

Some lawyers also supported strict punishments and defended continuing capital punishment

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The four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case were hanged to death at 5:30 a.m. in Delhi's Tihar jail on Friday

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

The petition claimed that the convicts have been treated as "guinea pigs" and have been falsely implicated in the case and it urged the ICJ to order urgent probe into the matter

He is the lone convict among the four who has not exhausted his legal remedies of filing a curative petition and subsequent mercy plea with the President

A bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and A S Bopanna appointed senior advocate Anjana Prakash as amicus curiae on Thursday to represent the convict Pawan Kumar Gupta

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

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Earlier in the day, the counsel for Nirbhaya's parents made an urgent mentioning before Justice Kait, seeking early disposal of Nirbhaya matter

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Pawan Kumar Gupta's plea will be heard by a bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bushan and A S Bopanna

The Supreme Court had on Tuesday dismissed the curative pleas of Mukesh and Vinay

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

The nation was shaken up by the news of this reprehensible gang rape

Earlier, the trial court had also sentenced all the four convicts to death penalty