December 16 gang rape case: Final hearing to begin in SC today

July 18, 2016 10:33

The Supreme Court will begin its hearing in the appeals filed by the four accused in the December 16 gang rape case on Monday.

A special bench of the apex court hearing the plea of death convicts in the case has decided to sit two hours beyond its working time to ensure speedy disposal of the case that has been pending in the court for more than two years.

The convicts Vinay Sharma (23), Akshay Thakur (31), Mukesh (29) and Pawan Gupta (22) were awarded death sentence by a trial court in September 2013 and six months later the Delhi high court upheld their conviction and sentence.

All the convicts then approached the Supreme Court which had in 2014 stayed their execution and the matter is pending in the top court since then. The Delhi high court had upheld their conviction and award of death penalty by terming the offence as 'extremely fiendish' and 'unparalleled in the history of criminal jurisprudence' and said the 'exemplary punishment' was the need of the hour.

The 23-year old was brutally assaulted and gang-raped by six people in a moving bus in south Delhi on the night of December 16, 2012, and thrown out of the vehicle with her male friend. She died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.

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