If that happens, it would be a case of the justice delivery system moving at an exceptional pace as in the Naina Sahni murder case, which came to be known as Tandoor Case, the apex court had, on Aug 13, reserved its order on the plea of Sushil Sharma, who had challenged the Delhi High Court upholding his death sentence.
Sahni was killed on Nov 2, 1995 by her husband Sushil Sharma, then a Youth Congress leader. He was convicted and sentenced to death by a trial court on Nov 7, 2003, which Delhi High Court upheld Feb 19, 2007.
In the Dec 16, 2012 case, a 23-year-old woman was brutally gang-raped in a moving bus by six people, including a juvenile. She died of her grave intestinal injuries Dec 29 at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital, where she had been airlifted for specialised treatment.
A fast-track court pronounced its sentence on the four convicts Friday to loud cheers from the large crowds that had gathered outside.
Of the original six accused, one was a juvenile and has been sent to a remand home for three years, the maximum sentence permissible under the law. One accused was found dead in his Tihar Jail cell.
