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16 December is the 5th anniversary of the horrific assault on Nirbhaya that triggered nationwide protests and led to the formation of new laws on crimes against women. On this day in 2012, a 23-year-old, paramedic, who came to be known as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped by six men on a moving bus. She died at a hospital in Singapore 13 days later.
Of the six rapists, one was a juvenile who was sentenced for three years at a probation home. One of the prime accused, Ram Singh, was found hanging in his cell at Delhi’s Tihar jail three months after his arrest. The other four convicts were sentenced to death on 13th September 2013, by the Delhi High Court. The sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in May 2017 and a review petition of the convicts is pending in the apex court.