All four convicts of Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case – Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, and Mukesh Singh – were hanged at 5:30am in Tihar jail today. The hanging was carried out as per the schedule after a three-judge Supreme Court bench rejected the final plea by the convicts’ lawyer AP Singh to stay their execution in a late-night hearing.
The four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, who were hanged on Friday morning, had not expressed any last wish, according to officials. “The convicts had not expressed any last wish or will to authorities,” an official said. Death row convicts are asked about their last wish before hanging.
Investigating officers of the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case on Friday called the hanging of the four convicts a ”real tribute” to the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who was savagely brutalised in an empty moving bus in a South Delhi neighbourhood. Pramod Singh Kushwaha, then the additional DCP (South) and who headed the investigation team, said each and every member of the team pitched in to prepare a watertight case against the convicts.
After the postmortem, the bodies of the convicts will be handed over to their respective families. The families of the convicts will have to give an undertaking in writing that they will not make a public demonstration of any kind in relation to the cremation or burial of the bodies.
