A Delhi court is hearing the arguments to pronounce the quantum of sentence against the four convicts in the 16th December gangrape and murder case. The prosecution has sought the maximum penalty of death for the convicts.
The fast-track court judge convicted the four yesterday, by relying on the victim's dying declaration and forensic evidence. The court held them guilty of 13 offences, including gangrape, unnatural offence, murder, dacoity, conspiracy, kidnapping and destruction of evidence.
The para-medical student was raped and beaten in a moving bus on December 16th last year. She died 13 days later. The police had charged six persons in the incident. The case against one of the main accused, Ram Singh, was dropped following his death in Tihar Jail during the trial earlier this year. The sixth accused, who was a juvenile, was held guilty by the Juvenile Justice Board on August 31, and sent to a remand home for three years.