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Delhi 2012 gang-rape case: Bodies of 4 convicts taken for autopsy
Tihar Jail’s director-general Sandeep Goel said the bodies will be handed over to the families after the post-mortem.
The bodies of the four convicts in the Delhi 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case have been sent to a hospital for a post-mortem after their pre-dawn hanging on Friday.
A spokesperson of Tihar Jail said the bodies of Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma were taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital at around 8:20am after the hanging.
Tihar Jail’s director-general Sandeep Goel said the bodies will be handed over to the families after the post-mortem.
However, the families will have to give a written undertaking that they will not make a public demonstration of the cremation or burial of those hanged, according to news agency ANI.
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The jail superintendent will also consult the district magistrate and the deputy commissioner of police about the arrangements for the bodies’ disposal.
“The post-mortem report of judicial handing is different from normal handing. Autopsy likely to completed by 12:30pm,” an unnamed source at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital was quoted as saying by ANI.
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All the four men in the Delhi 2012 gang-rape and murder case were hanged till death at 5:30am on Friday.
They were convicted of the brutal gang-rape and killing of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012. The woman had died at a Singapore hospital a few days later.
Two more people, including a juvenile, were also involved in the crime.
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One of the adults accused had allegedly committed suicide in the prison during the trial, and the juvenile was released from a correction home after three years.
