Delhi Girl gang-rape case: on Friday Sentencing the four convicts

NEW DELHI  The fast-track court convicted the four persons who gang-raped and murdered the 23 year old Delhi girl on December 16, September 13 has been fixed for pronouncing the quantum of sentence to be awarded to them. Additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna reserved the order on punishment after hearing arguments of the prosecution, which sought death penalty for the four, and the defense lawyers.

The Delhi Police sought death penalty for the four for brutal gang rape and cold-blooded murder of the 23-year-old young girl.

Four Convicts of the Delhi Rape Case

Advancing arguments on quantum of sentence, special public prosecutor Dayan Krishnan said the death sentence should be awarded to the four convicts — Mukesh (26), Vinay Sharma (20), Pawan Gupta (19) and Akshay Thakur (28) — as the case falls in the category of " rarest of rare" cases in history.

The defence lawyers, however, sought a lenient punishment for the convicts, saying life imprisonment in such a case is a rule while death penalty is an exception.

During the arguments, the prosecutor told the court that the convicts do not deserve any mercy, as they killed the helpless girl who kept on pleading for mercy. They not only raped but injured to kill brutally.

"The crime is not only grotesque and diabolic in nature but the barbaric behaviour of the convicts was of the highest kind. Maximum sentence has to be given as the court should see that they have raped and killed a helpless girl, even as she pleaded for her life," he said.

He said people at large are watching this case and if the convicts are awarded a lighter punishment, the public will lose faith in the judicial system. "This is an extreme case of depravity and sexual assault of a young girl, who could not survive after their gruesome attack and gang rape. "The act to damage the girl's intestines intentionally leaves no scope of sympathy," the prosecutor argued.

Not only the girls’ family and the Delhi but also the whole India wants sentence to death for the four. Some are asking, "They should be handover to the girl’s family and they would do the rest." Though the 5^th & the most cruel one, as per the Delhi police, had been sentenced for 3 years of prosecution by the Juvenile Court as on the time of the incident he was a minor! Family members wants the same penalty for him too.

After all these a question we should ask ourselves, after crossing the 20 Centuries when would people learn the actual meaning of civilisation?

Delhi gang-rape 9/11/2013 10:01:00 pm