It has been five years and finally, the verdict of Nibhaya case is here. A 23-year old but dead Nirbhaya has finally got the justice. A young medical student, Jyoti Singh faced a terrible fate when she was brutally gang-raped and tortured by six of her co-passengers in a moving bus. The incident made her turn into a faceless, unknown girl and the enraged Indians mentioned her as ‘Nirbhaya’ (stands for fearless).
Today, the Supreme Court of India has confirmed the death of the four of the convicts from this case. Previously, a trial court in 2013, confirmed the death sentence of the convicts. The four convicts then challenged the verdict of the trial court in the Supreme Court. But, the verdict still stands fast.
The story of Nirbhaya started with a 23-year old medical student, Jyoti Singh. On December 16, 2012, Jyoti was heading back home with her friend, Awindra Pratap Pandey. They boarded an off-duty charter bus when one of the passengers confirmed that the bus is heading towards their destination. Jyoti and Awindra noticed that there were only six passengers present on the bus. Awindra got suspicious after the bus deviated from its usual route, even, the doors of the bus went shut. He objected to this unusual route after which their co-passengers beaten Awindra and gagged him and knocked him out of his senses. They then dragged Jyoti to the rear of the moving bus where she was brutally gang-raped by the six of the convicts. After their abominable crime, these criminals took it to different level of inhuman act when the criminals brutalized the girl with an iron rod and pulled out her intestines. Jyoti who is now become Nirbhaya somehow managed to breathe for 13 days. She died but her gangrape case continued till now.
The six convicts – Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta, and Mukesh has now received what they deserved from long back. Well, Ram Singh was found hanging in his cell in Tihar jail. While another convict being a teenager is sent to rehab center from where he walked out after spending three years.
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Tiru Dehariya
