New Delhi
The Supreme Court today reaffirmed its verdict upholding the death sentence to four convicts who gang-raped and murdered Nirbhaya.
Dismissing the plea for the recall of the May 5, 2017 verdict upholding the death sentence, Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice R. Banumathi and Justice Ashok Bhushan said that the review petition lacked grounds for a reconsideration.
“This decision reaffirms our trust in the court that we will definitely get justice,” said Asha Devi, mother of the 2012 Delhi gang rape victim on the SC’s dismissal of the accused’s review petition.
“We knew that review petition will be dismissed. But what next? So much time has gone by and the threat to women have gone up in this span. I believe sooner they’re hanged, better it is,” said Nirbhaya’s father Badrinath Singh.
