Five years after a 23-year-old paramedical student was brutally raped in Delhi by six men in a moving bus that ultimately led to her death, the Supreme Court on Friday brought some sort of closure to the case by confirming the death sentence awarded to four of them — one was tried under juvenile laws and another committed suicide in jail — by the trial court and confirmed later by the high courWhile confirming the capital punishment given to all four convicts, the court said that the brutal manner in which the girl was raped and killed warrants death sentence. “The incident shook the conscience of humanity…If ever there was a case for hanging, this was it,” the judges observed. Describing the crime as “rarest of rare” case, the apex court said: “We are compelled to give extreme punishment to ensure justice…This is a crime which has shocked the collective consciousness of the society.”
