Nirbhaya Killing

The Supreme Court today freed three men convicted of raping and torturing a 19-year-old Delhi woman before killing her in 2012, months before the Nirbhaya case. The Delhi High Court had described them as predators trawling the streets for prey.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday over the brutal torture of the 20-year-old in Hathras, saying she was "killed by a ruthless government".

All four men convicted of the gang-rape and killing of a young Delhi woman in 2012 will hang tomorrow morning as decided, a Delhi court said today. The Patiala House Court rejected all petitions of the convicts, Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32, who are to hang at 5.30 am on Friday.

Barely 24 hours before the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case are to be executed, a drama played out outside Delhi's Patiala House court today as the wife of one of the convicts threatened to kill herself. Akshay Singh and three others, found guilty of the horrific rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student eight years ago, will be hanged...

Three of the four men convicted in the 2012 gang-rape and killing of Nirbhaya today petitioned the United Nation's International Court of Justice (ICJ) in another eleventh-hour attempt to stall their hanging, scheduled on Friday.

The four men convicted in the rape and killing of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in 2012 will not be hanged today as scheduled, a judge in Delhi said on Monday, deferring their execution for the third time.

The appeal of the parents of Nirbhaya -- calling for fresh death warrants for the men who brutally tortured and killed their 23-year-old daughter -- will be heard tomorrow, a Delhi court said as the one-week deadline given by the High Court to end the legal process before the execution came to an end today.

With less than a day to the scheduled hanging of the four Nirbhaya convicts, another petition was filed today before the Supreme Court. This one by Pawan Gupta, whose claim of being a minor at the time of the 2012 gang-rape and killing was dismissed by the Supreme Court last week.

Britisher Fiona Mackeown, whose teenage daughter was sexually abused before her death in Goa in 2008, on Sunday said she shared the pain of the mother of Nirbhaya whose rapists are awaiting gallows in the 2012 case.

With four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case set to face the gallows on January 22, this won't be the first time that four convicts on death row will be hanged in a day.

Seven years after Nirbhaya's death, a court declared that four men convicted of gang-raping, torturing and killing her will hang on January 22. "For seven years, I cried tears of blood," said her mother, describing her fight for justice a painful one.

Arrangements for hanging the four men convicted in the gang-rape, torture and killing of a young medical student in Delhi in 2012 began last month, as the city's Tihar jail prepared for the execution ordered by a court today for January 22 at 7 am.

Asha Devi, Nirbhaya's mother, cried at a Delhi court this evening after being told that a death warrant for the hanging of the four convicts in the 2012 gang-rape, torture and killing of her daughter

Asha Devi, Nirbhaya's mother, has said she is "very happy" with the Supreme Court's confirmation of the death sentence for one of the four convicts in the in the 2012 gang-rape, torture and killing of her daughter

The four men convicted in the 2012 gang-rape, torture and killing of a young medical student in Delhi are a step closer to being hanged after the Supreme Court today dismissed the last review petition in the case, filed by one of the convicts. Confirming the death sentence of convict Akshay Kumar Singh, the court said he had the option of pleading ...

The Supreme Court today freed three men convicted of raping and torturing a 19-year-old Delhi woman before killing her in 2012, months before the Nirbhaya case. The Delhi High Court had described them as predators trawling the streets for prey.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday over the brutal torture of the 20-year-old in Hathras, saying she was "killed by a ruthless government".

All four men convicted of the gang-rape and killing of a young Delhi woman in 2012 will hang tomorrow morning as decided, a Delhi court said today. The Patiala House Court rejected all petitions of the convicts, Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32, who are to hang at 5.30 am on Friday.

Barely 24 hours before the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case are to be executed, a drama played out outside Delhi's Patiala House court today as the wife of one of the convicts threatened to kill herself. Akshay Singh and three others, found guilty of the horrific rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student eight years ago, will be hanged...

Three of the four men convicted in the 2012 gang-rape and killing of Nirbhaya today petitioned the United Nation's International Court of Justice (ICJ) in another eleventh-hour attempt to stall their hanging, scheduled on Friday.

The four men convicted in the rape and killing of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in 2012 will not be hanged today as scheduled, a judge in Delhi said on Monday, deferring their execution for the third time.

The appeal of the parents of Nirbhaya -- calling for fresh death warrants for the men who brutally tortured and killed their 23-year-old daughter -- will be heard tomorrow, a Delhi court said as the one-week deadline given by the High Court to end the legal process before the execution came to an end today.

With less than a day to the scheduled hanging of the four Nirbhaya convicts, another petition was filed today before the Supreme Court. This one by Pawan Gupta, whose claim of being a minor at the time of the 2012 gang-rape and killing was dismissed by the Supreme Court last week.

Britisher Fiona Mackeown, whose teenage daughter was sexually abused before her death in Goa in 2008, on Sunday said she shared the pain of the mother of Nirbhaya whose rapists are awaiting gallows in the 2012 case.

With four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case set to face the gallows on January 22, this won't be the first time that four convicts on death row will be hanged in a day.

Seven years after Nirbhaya's death, a court declared that four men convicted of gang-raping, torturing and killing her will hang on January 22. "For seven years, I cried tears of blood," said her mother, describing her fight for justice a painful one.

Arrangements for hanging the four men convicted in the gang-rape, torture and killing of a young medical student in Delhi in 2012 began last month, as the city's Tihar jail prepared for the execution ordered by a court today for January 22 at 7 am.

Asha Devi, Nirbhaya's mother, cried at a Delhi court this evening after being told that a death warrant for the hanging of the four convicts in the 2012 gang-rape, torture and killing of her daughter

Asha Devi, Nirbhaya's mother, has said she is "very happy" with the Supreme Court's confirmation of the death sentence for one of the four convicts in the in the 2012 gang-rape, torture and killing of her daughter

The four men convicted in the 2012 gang-rape, torture and killing of a young medical student in Delhi are a step closer to being hanged after the Supreme Court today dismissed the last review petition in the case, filed by one of the convicts. Confirming the death sentence of convict Akshay Kumar Singh, the court said he had the option of pleading ...