# Impromptu clapping in courtroom n Victim’s parents heave sigh of relief
PTI
NEW DELHI
The paramedic student was gangraped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a moving bus in South Delhi by a gang of six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out naked. She succumbed to her injuries on December 29 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
Observing that the accused had found her as “an object for enjoyment” and “ravish her as they liked, treat her as
DEC 16, 2012: Paramedical student gangraped and brutally assaulted by six men in a private bus and thrown out of the moving vehicle along with her male friend
DEC 18: Driver of the bus Ram Singh and three others arrested
DEC 21: Delinquent juvenile nabbed from Anand Vihar bus terminal in Delhi
DEC 21-22: Sixth accused arrested in Bihar and brought to Delhi
DEC 23: Protesters defy prohibitory orders, take to the streets
DEC 25: Girl’s condition declared critical
DEC 26: Following a cardiac arrest, victim flown to Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital by the government
DEC 29: Victim succumbs to injuries and other medical conditions. Police add murder charge in the FIR
Dec 16 gangrape case shocked
collective
conscience: Judge
NEW DELHI: If at all there is a case warranting death sentence, it is the December 16, 2012 gangrape-cum-murder case which “shocked the collective conscience of the society”, the lone woman judge in the Supreme Court, Justice R Banumathi, said on Friday.
The judge, who wrote a separate but concurring verdict upholding capital punishment to the four convicts, said if the dreadfulness of the men who raped and inserted iron rod in the victim’s private parts, does not fall in the ‘rarest of rare category’, then one may wonder what else will.
“The present case clearly comes within the category of ‘rarest of rare case’ where the question of any other punishment is unquestionably foreclosed. If at all there is a case warranting award of death sentence, it is the present case.
