Nirbhaya's friend who was with her when she was gangraped was in trauma after the assault "as mental scars take time a lot of time to heal", his father said on Tuesday as news of the death warrant against the four convicts came in.
"He works outside the city and now he is married and has a child," he said.
"In the past, he was in real trauma as physical scars can be treated but mental scars take a lot of time to heal," the father, who is an advocate, added.
He expressed satisfaction after a Delhi court issued a death warrant against the convicts, saying "justice have been delivered after almost eight long years".
"Although it is delayed but I know that legal procedures take time. I can say that the decision is a relief for the pain that we went through. I welcome the decision," he said, adding that his son need not be disturbed any more.
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When asked about the reaction of Nirbhaya's family, he said, "I've not talked to her mother but I often talk to Nirbhaya's uncle and he is also satisfied that at last the court gave them death sentence for their brutal act and heinous crime."
The convicts--Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta--will be hanged on January 22 after the Delhi court issued death warrants against them.
Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old paramedic student, was gangraped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a moving bus in south Delhi by six persons before being dumped on the road.
She died on December 29, 2012 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
One of the six accused in the case, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail.
A juvenile, who was among the accused, was convicted by a juvenile justice board and was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term.
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