The Supreme Court, on 5 May, upheld the earlier Delhi High Court order awarding the death penalty to all four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case.
“It is a barbaric incident,” the court said, as an SC bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan threw out the convicts’ appeals against the death penalty.
“It’s a barbaric crime and it has shaken the society’s conscience,” Justice R Banumathi told the court, stressing on the need to educate children to respect women. Justice Misra, who read the operative portion of the judgement, said the offence created a “tsunami of shock”.
The Quint spoke to Aishwarya Bhati, advocate-on-record, Supreme Court on the judgement, and here’s what she had to say:
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