Nirbhaya Case: 7 Years After Crime, 4 Death Warrants Later All Convicts Hanged Till Death- How It Happened

Nirbhaya Case LIVE Updates: Four men convicted of the rape and murder of a Delhi woman were hanged till death on Friday. Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) were executed at 5.30 am for the savage assault on the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who came to be known the world over as Nirbhaya, the fearless one. The executions were carried out after the men exhausted every possible legal avenue to escape the gallows.

In last-gasp attempts, one of the convicts knocked on the doors of the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court just hours before the hanging. In an unprecedented late-night hearing that began at 2.30 AM and lasted an hour, a Supreme Court bench dismissed his last plea. Finally, the four convicts were hanged at 5.30 am, Director General of Tihar Jail Sandeep Goel said.

This is the first time that four men have been hanged together in Tihar Jail, South Asia's largest prison complex that houses more than 16,000 inmates. (With Agency Inputs)