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Court to deliver Delhi bus gang-rape verdict

The student’s family were bitterly disappointed with the three-year sentence handed down last month on the youngest defendant, the maximum allowed by law as he was only 17 at the time of the attack.

The victim’s father has said the family will only get some sense of closure if the four remaining defendants are ordered to be hanged.

While the judge should hand down his verdict on Tuesday, the actual sentence may not follow for a few days.

“We will not accept anything below the death penalty,” the father told AFP from his home in southwestern Delhi in an interview last week.

“Anything other than the gallows for these men will not be right. It would send out the wrong message, people will lose trust in our judicial system.”

He added: “If all four are sentenced to death, I can’t imagine anything being better than that. Nothing could get better … We will get closure.”

The attack sparked weeks of sometimes violent street protests across India amid seething public anger about sex crimes against women.

It also led to tougher laws for sex offenders, including the death penalty for rapists whose victims die or are left in a vegetative state.

But savage attacks against women are still reported daily in India’s newspapers and the gang-rape of a photographer last month near an upmarket area of Mumbai rekindled public disgust.

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