NEW DELHI, March 19 — Four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a New Delhi student will be executed tomorrow, the victim’s lawyer said after a court dismissed a final last-minute petition to delay the hangings. The brutal attack on Jyoti Singh aboard a city bus sparked nationwide...
AP Singh , advocate of Akshay Thakur, one of the four men convicted of the gang-rape and murder case of a student, speaks to media representatives along with Thakur’s wife, Punita Devi , outside the Patiala House Court in New Delhi March 19, 2020. — AFP pic
A trial court in Delhi, which had already postponed the hangings three times, yesterday dismissed another plea to delay the executions scheduled for 5:30am tomorrow. The Supreme Court said it found no reason to interfere with the president’s decision and rejected his petition.The media has also been full of grisly details about the hangings, including that the nooses will be smeared with banana and clarified butter to soften them.
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