India court upholds death sentence for Delhi gang-rapists


Indian protesters shout slogans demanding death sentence for the juveniles involved in a rape case, outside Delhi high court in New Delhi, India on Thursday. -EPA

NEW DELHI: An Indian court upheld Thursday the death penalty handed to four men convicted of the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi, an attack that shocked the country and sparked weeks of protests.

The High Court rejected an appeal by the four who were sentenced last year to hang following a trial over the attack on the 23-year-old student on a moving bus in the capital in December 2012.

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