Four convicts in the December 16 gangrape-cum-murder case were on Friday awarded death penalty by a Delhi court which said the gravity of the offence cannot be tolerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeath to all,\u201d Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna said while delivering the verdict in the case that had evoked nationwide outrage and led the government to bring in a stringent anti-rape law.<\/p>\n
\u201cBesides 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The four were convicted by the court on September 10 for the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student.<\/p>\n
\u201cCourt cannot turn a blind eye to such a gruesome act,\u201d the judge said, while handing down the maximum punishment.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cWhen crime against women is rising on day-to-day basis, so, at this point in time court cannot keep its eye shut.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere should be exemplary punishment in view of the unparallelled brutality with which the victim was gangraped and murdered, as the case falls under the rarest of rare category. All be given death,\u201d the court said while reading out a portion of the order.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a time when serious crime against a woman has come to the fore and now its judiciary\u2019s responsibility to instill confidence among the women,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Besides murder, the four have been also convicted for offences including gangrape, unnatural offences, attempt to murder, dacoity, destruction of evidence, conspiracy, kidnapping or abducting in order to murder, while acquitting them of the charge of murder in dacoity.<\/p>\n
Immediately after pronouncement of sentence, the victim\u2019s mother expressed satisfaction over the verdict.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019Halak mein saans atki thi, jo ab bahar nikli hai. Mein dhanywaad karti hu desh ke logon ka aur media ka<\/i>\u2019 (We were waiting with bated breath, now we are relieved. I thank the people of my country and the media),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Besides her, the victim\u2019s father and two brothers were also present in the jam-packed court room when the sentence was pronounced.<\/p>\n
Hearing that he will face the gallows, Vinay started crying in court while the other three convicts — Mukesh, Pawan, Akshay — started shouting for pardon, with one of the defence lawyers A.P. Singh also joining them in seeking mercy.<\/p>\n
Advocate V K Anand, who appeared for Mukesh, said he has regard for the verdict and he will file an appeal in the Delhi High Court.<\/p>\n
Special public prosecutor Dayan Krishnan said, \u201cI have done my job and we (prosecution) are happy with the verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n
Soon after the verdict was delivered, people waiting outside the courtroom started clapping.<\/p>\n
(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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