Dec 16 gangrape: SC stays death sentence of 2 convicts
This came after convicts Akshay Thakur and Vinay Sharma approached the apex court challenging the Delhi High Court order giving death penalty.
Their death penalty has been stayed till further orders are passed.
Earlier, a special bench of Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh stayed the execution of the death sentence of Mukesh (26) and Pawan Gupta (19) till Mar 31.
Pawan and Mukesh had moved the apex court challenging their conviction and death sentence.
The Delhi High Court on Mar 13 upheld death penalty for all four convicts in the Delhi gangrape case.
The convicts - Mukesh (26), Akshay Thakur (28), Pawan Gupta (19) and Vinay Sharma (20) - had moved the High Court claiming their innocence.
On Dec 16, 2012, six people gangraped and brutalised the 23-year-old Delhi Braveheart or Nirbhaya with an iron rod on a moving bus in New Delhi. The victim succumbed to her injuries at a Singapore hospital on Dec 29.
The incident triggered nationwide outrage against rising cases of crime against women in India with people pouring into the streets of New Delhi for days and demanding a change of law and strict punishment of the accused.
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