New Delhi: The seven-year-long wait for justice finally comes to an end as the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case were hanged in the gallows site of Tihar Jail on March 20.
The heart-wrenching case that shook the collective conscience of the country and sparked days of violent protests with people crying for justice and demanding tougher laws to deal with perpetrators of such a horrifying crime.
Let us have a look at the timeline which led to the execution of the convicts in the horrifying crime.
After the Delhi Court dismissed a plea by three of the four convicts, Nirbhaya's mother said her daughter's soul will now rest in peace and she had got justice seven years after the gruesome gangrape and murder that shook the nation.
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