India's Supreme Court has rejected the final appeal of one of the four men sentenced to death for the shocking 2012 gang rape and murder of a woman on a moving bus in New Delhi.
The victim, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, was heading home with a male friend when six men lured them onto a bus.
Once the group were out of sight, they beat the man with a metal bar, raped the woman and used the bar to inflict significant internal injuries to her.
The pair were later stripped and dumped on the roadside. The woman died of her injuries two weeks later.
The perpetrators were swiftly apprehended, and four defendants were sentenced to death. Another hanged himself in prison before his trial began.
The sixth defendant was a minor at the time of the offence and was sentenced to three years in a reform home.
One of the accused, Akshay Kumar Singh, had his final appeal rejected by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, with the attackers now expected to be hanged.
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