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NEW DELHI \u2013 Four Indian men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi in 2012 have been hanged.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were sentenced to death by a trial court in 2013.<\/p>\n

The four were hanged in the capital’s high-security Tihar prison in the first executions in India since 2015.<\/p>\n

The victim died from her injuries days after being raped by six men on a moving bus. The incident caused outrage and led to new anti-rape laws in India.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old physiotherapy student was dubbed Nirbhaya \u2013 the fearless one \u2013 by the press as she could not be named under Indian law.<\/p>\n

Six people were arrested for the attack. One of them, Ram Singh, was found dead in jail in March 2013, having apparently taken his own life.<\/p>\n

Another, who was 17 at the time of the attack, was released in 2015, after serving three years in a reform facility \u2013 the maximum term possible for a juvenile in India.<\/p>\n

In the last few months, all four convicts filed petitions in the Supreme Court in a bid to reduce their sentences to life imprisonment. But the top court rejected their petitions, leaving the men with no other legal recourse. A last-minute appeal to have the death penalties commuted was also rejected hours before the executions.<\/p>\n

Minutes after the convicts were hanged on Friday morning, the victim’s mother said: “I hugged my daughter’s photograph and told her we finally got justice.”<\/p>\n

Her father said that his “faith in the judiciary had been restored”.<\/p>\n

Security was tight outside the prison with a large number of police and paramilitary personnel deployed to maintain law and order.<\/p>\n

A group of people carrying placards had gathered outside the prison gates and began celebrating after the executions were announced.<\/p>\n

Some chanted “death to rapists” and waved posters thanking the judiciary.<\/p>\n

(BBC)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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