December 16 gang-rape case News

The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the plea filed by December 16 gang-rape convicts Mukesh, Akshay, Pawan and Vinay, challenging the Delhi High court order which had sentenced the four convicts to the gallows after keeping in view the fact that it was a rarest of the rare case.

A 23-year-old paramedic was brutally assaulted and gang-raped by six persons in a moving bus in south Delhi and thrown out of the vehicle with her male friend on December 16, 2012.

In a grim throwback to the horrific gang-rape and torture of a para-medic student in a moving bus on December 16 four years ago which had shaken the country, a 20-year-old girl, who was on a job-hunt, was allegedly raped in a car in South Delhi's Moti Bagh area on Thursday night.

The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear appeals filed by the December 16 gang-rape convicts, challenging a Delhi High Court order that ordered four of them to the gallows considering "the case rarest of rare".

The Supreme Court will on Friday hear an appeal filed by the December 16 Nirbhaya gang rape convicts, who have moved to top court challenging their death sentence.

The convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case had challenged their death sentence awarded by the Delhi High Court in the apex court.

Two December 16 gang-rape convicts have written a letter to the Chief Justice of India against the appointment of Raju Ramachandran and Sanjay Hegde as amicus curiae.

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The Delhi High Court's refusal to stay the release of the juvenile convict in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case has come as a big disappointment for the victim's parents.