New Delhi, March 20 -- Seven years after Nirbhaya was brutally gangraped and murdered in the national capital, leaving the country shocked and triggering series of protests demanding justice for her, all the four convicts in the 2012 case were executed at Tihar Jail in New Delhi on Friday.

Ending a long legal battle, which was extended till late Friday morning, just hours before four were hanged, the execution took place at 5.30 am.All the four people convicts were identified as Akshay Thakur (31), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Mukesh Singh (32).The hanging took place after the Supreme Court rejected the last petition filed by one of the four convicts to stop the execution.The judges of the Supreme Court held a special sitting ...