HC: DEATH FOR DELHI RAPE ACCUSED IS OK

On Thursday, the Delhi High Court confirmed the death sentence for four men convicted by a trial court for the brutal gangrape and murder of a young medical student in December 2012.

Dismissing appeals of the accused, the court said, “Death reference is accepted. Death sentence awarded by the trial court is affirmed. The appeals of the convicts are dismissed.”

Lawyers of the four men — Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Pawan and Akshay Thakur — have said that they will move the Supreme Court against the verdict. Making scathing observations, the court said that the offences were “completely revolting” and committed in an “extremely fiendish, demoniac, barbaric and nefarious manner”.

The Delhi High Court in its 340-page order into the brutal gangrape and murder of a young medical student in December 2012, said, “We conclude by stating the obvious that a strong message needs to be sent to the perpetrators of grotesque and ghastly crimes against women that such crimes shall not be countenanced, though we confess that we are not aware of any case in which a crime of such dimensions has been committed hitherto before.”

“We cannot also but be conscious of the fact that the gruesome manner of the execution of the crime in the instant case is in a sense unparalleled in the history of criminal jurisprudence and that if the rising trend towards such crime is not nipped in the bud and arrested at its inception, the poison is likely to spread like wild fire through the social order, rendering it hapless and defunct,” it added.

“Exemplary punishment is, therefore, the need of the hour, for, if this is not the rarest of rare cases there is likely to be none,” it said.

The parents of the victim were also present in the court at the time of

Clockwise from top left: Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh Exemplary punishment is the need of the hour, for if this is not the rarest of rare cases, there is likely to be none — DELHI HIGH COURT

pronouncement of the verdict. “We have got full faith in the judiciary. We had expected this verdict. But the ultimate satisfaction will be when the convicts meet their ultimate fate,” the mother of the 23year-old paramedic said.

“Humein pura nyay tabhi milega jab sab faansi par latkaaye jayenge (We will get justice only when all of them will be hanged),” she added.