Following are the highlights of the order awarding death sentence to four men in the December 16 gangrape and murder case.
*The convicts are not convicted only on account of conspiracy but also for their overt acts.
*Offence committed in a extremely brutal, grotesque, diabolical, revolting and thus dastardly manner so as to arouse intense and extreme indignation of society.
*Demonstration of exceptional depravity and extreme brutality.
*Extreme misery inflicted upon the prosecutrix before her death.
*Grave impact of the crime on social order.
*Aggravating circumstances thus outweigh the mitigating circumstances.
*Extreme mental perversion not worthy of human condonation.
*Their unprovoked crime demonstrated exceptional depravity of mind of the convict, shows beastly behaviour.
*Suffering inflicted on the victim was unparalleled. The brutality caused to her internal organs is extreme. The act of convicts call for extreme penalty.
*Court has to look into the factors like society's abhorrence, extreme indignation and antipathy to certain types of cases.
*Crime of such nature against a helpless women, per se, require exemplary punishment.
*Gravity of incident depicts the hair raising, beastly and unparalleled behaviour.
*Subjecting of the girl to inhuman acts of torture before her death had shocked the collective conscience.
*This ghastly act of the convicts definitely fits in the bracket of rarest of rare cases.
