An Indian court has ordered that four men convicted of the infamous 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a New Delhi bus would now be hanged on February 1. The Supreme Court had upheld death sentences against the four men in 2017 and since then their execution has been stuck in a legal quagmire. The four men were sentenced to death in 2013 after gang-raping Jyoti Singh on a Delhi bus the previous December. After years on death row, the four were told earlier this month that a New Delhi court had scheduled the hangings for January 22. His lawyer accused the judges of bowing to public pressure, but the Supreme Court rejected Singh's appeal.

Source: Daily Mail January 17, 2020 16:40 UTC