The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death penalty to the four convicted in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case.
“She was reduced to an object for their gross sadistic pleasures. They played with her dignity in a devilish manner”, the Supreme Court said. The crime was a ‘devastation of social trust and of inconceivable brutality’, the court said.
On the events of that fateful day, the court said, “Little did she know on that cold winter night that her world would come to a devastating end…Convicts left the victim and her companion for dead, tried to run over them with the bus, looted them and shared the booty”.
Shattering of victim’s intestine with iron rod, tearing of clothes, looting , bestial sexual assault make the gang-rape a rarest of rare cased, the court added.
The verdict was met with applause in the court-room. The Supreme Court also said that Delhi police investigation has been comprehensive.
“Victim’s dying declaration is consistent; it has been proved beyond doubt and corroborated…Aggravating circumstances outweigh mitigating circumstances in the case; offence created ‘tsunami of shock”, the apex court said.
The brutal crime against the 23-year-old victim had provoked national outrage and demand for a more stringent law to deal with sex crime against women.