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India Executes Four Men Convicted in 2012 Delhi Gang Rape, Murder Case

MUMBAI (Reuters) – India executed four men on Friday convicted for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in December 2012, in a case that shamed and outraged a nation with one of the world’s worst records for crimes against women.

Here is a timeline of the case:

Dec. 16, 2012 – A 23-year-old physiotherapy student was brutally raped on a moving bus in the Indian capital of New Delhi. She and her male companion were tortured. A metal pipe was pushed into her abdomen, and a large section of her intestine was pulled out. She was thrown on the roadside and left for dead. Five men and a juvenile were arrested for the crime. Shocked by the brutality of the crime, large crowds gather for candlelit vigils in cities throughout the country, expressing their outrage and praying for the victim as she clung to life.

Dec. 29, 2012 – The victim dies in a hospital in Singapore after battling serious internal injuries. Protests erupt across India, calling out government indifference, gaps in law-enforcement and rising sexual crimes against women.

Jan. 17 2013 – A fast-track court begins proceedings against the five men and one juvenile in the case.

March 11, 2013 – Ram Singh, one of the main accused in the case and the driver of the bus, is found hanging in his prison cell.

April 2, 2013 – A tough new anti-rape law is passed, making stalking a crime and introducing the death sentence for convicted rapists.

September 2013 – The fast-track court sentences all four adult men to death in the case. The juvenile accused is remanded to a three-year term in a detention center and is released in 2015, after serving his term.

May 5, 2017 – India’s Supreme Court upholds the death penalty of the four remaining convicts. The men file review petitions challenging the order.

Jan. 17, 2020 – Indian President Ram Nath Kovind rejects their pleas for mercy.

March 20, 2020 – The four men are hanged at dawn in New Delhi’s Tihar prison.

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