The four men—Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma—were hanged simultaneously inside Tihar Jail number 3 at 5:30am for the gang-rape and murder of the woman inside a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16, 2012.

The young paramedical student died at a hospital in Singapore on December 29.

The four convicts were hanged to death at 5:30am in Delhi’s Tihar Jail today bringing the curtains down on the drama surrounding the execution that saw the death warrants cancelled thrice on various grounds over the last two-and-a-half months.
Sandeep Goel, DGP (prisons), confirmed that all the four were hanged at 5:30am.

The hanging was carried 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 on Thursday.

NIRBHAYA MOTHER SAID “Finally, the convicts have been hanged. This was a struggle of eight years. It was delayed but we got justice. Today, Nirbhaya got justice and girls of the country got justice. I want to thank everyone – the judiciary, the government, every citizen – for this,” she said while speaking to reporters after the hanging.

Badrinath Singh, the woman’s father said,“Our wait for justice was painful and agonising… We appeal for observing this day as Nirbhaya ‘Nyay Diwas’ (day of justice)”.

Rekha Sharma, chairperson of National Commission for Women (NCW)

“An example has been set today but it could have been done earlier. Now people know that they will be punished, you may extend the date but you will get punished,” Sharma said,

Swati Maliwal, chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women (DCW)

“It’s a historic day. Nirbhaya got justice after over seven years, her soul must have found peace today,” Maliwal was quoted.

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“My husband is a convict in the Nirbhaya case but he is innocent…Now, I want to be legally divorced from him before he is hanged as I don’t want to live the life of a widow,” Punita Devi, wife of Akshay Thakur, said in her petition filed at a family court in the local district court of Aurangabad. Son of Saryug Singh and Malti Devi, Akshay Thakur hails from the Lahangkarma village of Bihar’s Aurangabad district. The court has fixed March 19 as the next date of hearing.

My client [Punita Devi] has a right to seek divorce from her husband under section 13(2)(II) of the Hindu Marriage Act, which says a woman can seek divorce from her husband if he has been found guilty of rape, sodomy or bestiality. I have filed her petition in the family court of the district,” Mukesh Kumar Singh, Punita Devi’s lawyer told local journalists in Aurangabad. Ms. Devi also has a son to look after.

All the four convicts of Nirbhaya — Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) are currently lodged in Tihar jail and are set to be hanged on March 20. They have been using tactics to delay the hanging, which has already been postponed twice. They have even approached international court and India’s Human Rights Commission.

However, some legal experts feel that there is no chance of any further delay as all formalities have been completed and the convicts have exhausted all legal remedies.

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