New Delhi, May 5: As the Supreme Court is all set to pronounce verdict in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case at 2 pm on Friday, the parents of the victim said that they are confident that apex court will quash the appeals filed by four death row convicts against death penalty. The convicts – Akshay, Pawan, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh – challenged the Delhi High Court order which had sentenced them to the gallows. Earlier, the trial court also had sentenced all the four convicts to death penalty.
A report by ANI quotes Nirbhaya’s mother as saying that she has full faith in the judiciary. “I am sure that the apex court, through its ruling, will give justice to my daughter. This will set an example for the world,” she said.
On the other hand, Nirbhaya’s father is sure of the fact that the apex court will award death sentence to the convicts. “They will be awarded death sentence. Leave Supreme Court, even God will not forgive such people,” said Nirbhaya’s father .
The matter is being heard by the apex court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra and consisting of Justices R. Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan. (ALSO READ – Nirbhaya gangrape: 25 things you need to know about the incident that shook the nation)
If media reports are to be believed, relied to the four convicts is uncertain as Justice Dipak Misra doesn’t hesitate to give a death sentence and is exceedingly sensitive to women’s rights and liberties.
He has upheld rape as depravity and not curable and recently, passed a woman friendly judgement saying that “no woman can be compelled to love; she always has right to say no”.
One of the accused, Ram Singh hanged himself in prison, while another person, who was a juvenile at the time of the crime, was convicted in August last year and will serve the maximum sentence of three years in a reform home.
The brutal crime against Nirbhaya had created public furore for a more stringent law to deal with sex crimes against women.
The 23-year-old was brutally assaulted and raped by six persons on a moving bus in South Delhi and thrown out of the vehicle with her male friend on the night of December 16, 2012.
She died days later in a Singapore hospital on December 29. 2012.
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