• By Abhinav Gupta
  • Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:59 AM (IST)
  • Source:JND
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New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: The four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya case were hanged at 5:30 am today, after over seven years they brutalised a woman in a moving Delhi bus in a way that shook the entire nation.

Barely three hours before the scheduled hanging, the Supreme Court in a pre-dawn hearing on Friday brought down the curtain on the case dismissing a plea of one of the four convicts against rejection of his second mercy plea by President Ram Nath Kovind.

Hundreds of people have gathered outside the Tihar central jail carrying posters thanking the judiciary.

Updates on Nirbhaya Case:

09:02 am: Bodies of convicts went to DDU Hospital for post-mortem.The postmortem will be done as recommended by the Jail manual and Supreme Court guidelines. After the postmortem, the bodies of the convicts will be handed over to their respective families.

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07:36 am: "Today is our victory and it happened because of media, society and Delhi police. You can understand what is inside my heart by my smile," says Nirbhaya's father Badrinath Singh

07:04 am: It's a historic day, Nirbhaya got justice after over 7 years, her soul must have found peace today. Country has given a strong message to rapists that if you commit this crime you will be hanged, says Chairperson Delhi Commission for Women Swati Maliwal

07:03 am: 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, says Chairperson of National Commission for Women (NCW) Rekha Sharma

06:31 am: Director General of Tihar jail Sandeep Goel: Doctor has examined all four convicts (of 2012 Delhi gang-rape case) and declared them dead.

06:03 am: Nirbhaya's Mother after hanging of convicts:

05:56 am: We will request Supreme Court to issue guidelines so that no one can adopt delaying tactics in such cases in future: Nirbhaya's mother

05:54 am: Justice delayed, but not denied: Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi after hanging of convicts. 

05:52 am: We will continue our fight for justice for India's daughters: Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi

05:48 am: Our wait for justice was painful and agonising: Nirbhaya's father after hanging of convicts.

05:35 am: Minutes before the hanging, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi on Friday said, "today's dawn will be new dawn for daughters of India."

"We all have waited so long for this day. And, today's dawn will be new dawn as my daughter will get justice. It will also be a new dawn for daughters of India," Asha Devi said. 

05:32 am: All four 2012 Delhi gang-rape death row convicts have been brought to the place where they will be hanged shortly.

05:30 am: Security deployed outside Tihar jail, where the four 2012 Delhi gang-rape death row convicts will be hanged shortly.

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On March 5, the trial court issued fresh warrants for hanging on March 20 at 5.30 am of all convicts in the case - Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Singh (31).

A 23-year-old paramedic student, referred to as Nirbhaya, was sexually assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, in a moving bus in south Delhi by six people before she was thrown out on the road.

One of the six accused in the case, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail in 2013.

A juvenile, who was among the accused, was convicted by a juvenile justice board and was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term.