Another Day, Another Default Judgment Against Gabe Whitley
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2. The 2012 Delhi gang rape case involves
a rape and murder that occurred on 16
December 2012 in Munirka, a neighborhood
located in the southern part of New Delhi,
when a 23-year-old
female physiotherapy intern was beaten
and gang raped in a private bus in which
she was travelling with a male friend. There
were six others in the bus, including the
driver, all of whom raped the woman.
3. The woman died from her injuries thirteen days
later while undergoing emergency treatment
in Singapore.
The incident generated widespread national
and international coverage and was widely
condemned, both in India and abroad.
Subsequently, public protests against the
Government of India and the Government of
Delhi for not providing adequate security for
women took place in New Delhi, where thousands
of protesters clashed with security forces.
Similar protests took place in major cities
throughout the country.
5. Four convicts in the December 16 Delhi gang-rape case were
on Friday awarded death penalty by a Delhi court which said
the gravity of the offence cannot be tolerated.
"Death to all," additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna said
while delivering the verdict in the Delhi gang-rape case that
had evoked nationwide outrage and led the government to
bring in a stringent anti-rape law.
6. The offence committed by Mukesh (26), Akshay Thakur
(28), Pawan Gupta (19) and Vinay Sharma (20) falls under
the rarest of rare category warranting capital
punishment, the judge said.
The four were convicted by the court on September 10 for
the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic
student.
Besides discussing others offences, I straightaway come
to section 302 (murder) of IPC. This falls under inhuman
nature of the convicts and the gravity of offence they
committed cannot be tolerated. Death sentence is given to
all the four convicts," he said.