Delhi bus gang rapists scheduled to hang on Friday, victim’s lawyer says
- Attack on Jyoti Singh aboard a city bus sparked nationwide demonstrations and shone a spotlight on the alarming rates of sexual violence in India
- Five men and one juvenile dragged Singh to the back of the bus and raped and tortured her with a metal rod. She died 13 days later
Four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a New Delhi student will be executed on Friday, 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 demonstrations and shone a spotlight on the alarming rates of sexual violence in India.
A trial court in Delhi, which had already postponed the hangings three times, on Thursday dismissed another plea to delay the executions scheduled for 5.30am on Friday.
“The court rejected their petition and said they have exhausted all their legal rights. The hangings will take place on Friday at the scheduled time,” Singh’s lawyer Seema Kushwaha told reporters.
Singh’s mother Asha Devi welcomed the ruling and said her “daughter’s soul will finally rest in peace”.
The convicts had filed numerous petitions seeking delays to the executions.
