Delhi gang-rape accused should be sentenced to death: Sushma Swaraj

10 Sep 2013 Evaluate

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said the four remaining accused declared guilty in connection with the December 16, 2012 rape case, should be given death penalty, which would set an example for the future. Further, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde told that a death sentence was assured, given that the law had been strengthened and added that amendment in the law ensures that from now in such cases death penalty will be awarded.

Of the total six accused, the prime conspirator – Ram Singh – had earlier this year killed himself in jail, while a minor accused was on August 31 sentenced to three years in a special home by the Juvenile Justice Board. A fast-track court in Delhi on Tuesday pronounced all the remaining four accused guilty for the brutal rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012. The victim died of internal injuries in a Singapore hospital two weeks later. The charges in the instant case were framed on February 2 during which the court also invoked Section 366 of the Indian penal Code (IPC) against them for abducting the girl with intention of committing 'illicit intercourse'.

The victim's parents had earlier said that the accused should be given the death penalty. The victim’s father told that 'They should be only given the death sentence so that it sends out a strong message to the people and nobody dares to commit such a barbaric crime in the future.'

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