All four men found guilty in Delhi gang-rape trial

[Triana]

Four men have been convicted for their roles in the gang-rape and murder of a young woman in a moving bus in Delhi last year.

Judge Yogesh Khanna delivered the verdict on Tuesday morning shortly after noon local time at the district court of Saket in south Delhi.

"I convict all of the accused. They have been found guilty of gang rape, unnatural offences, destruction of evidence … and for committing the murder of the helpless victim," Khanna said.

The bus cleaner Akshay Kumar Singh, gym instructor Vinay Sharma, fruit-seller Pawan Gupta and unemployed Mukesh Singh will be sentenced on Wednesday and are likely to face death by hanging, though life imprisonment is a possibility. Their lawyers said they would appeal.

With tears in her eyes and wearing a pink sari, the mother of the 23-year-old victim – who cannot be identified under Indian law – sat just a few feet from the four men who stood against a wall in the court as Khanna read the verdict.

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[Marrah_G]

1. I'm glad they were convicted

I hope they get life in prison instead of hanging.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Kicked & Recommended

[niyad]

3. k and r. glad they were convicted. may they experience every bit of the hell they caused her

and her companion.

[noiretextatique]

4. good

I hope they spend the rest of their lives in prison.

[freshwest]

5. FWIW, this is not satisfactory. The one who literally ripped her guts out with his hands got a pass:

The youngest among the alleged attackers, who was 17 at the time of the assault, was tried separately and was last month sentenced to three years in a juvenile reform home – the maximum possible punishment under Indian law.

This is one who actually killed her, she could not survive what he did. That was not the act of a boy, or even a young man. At least a wild cat breaks the neck of its prey so it is dead before doing that. So I can't even call him an animal.