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Four men who gang-raped and murdered 23-year-old student Jyoti Singh on a Delhi bus in 2012 have today been hanged.  Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were all hanged in the high-security Tihar prison in Delhi early this morning, seven years after their crime which sparked worldwide protests. The victim’s mother Asha … Read more

Four men were hanged in India today for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge protests and worldwide revulsion.  Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were all hanged in the high-security Tihar prison in Delhi early this morning.  The victim’s mother declared that … Read more