An Indian court has formally sentenced
four men to death for the gang rape and murder of a student in the capital
Delhi.
Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay
Thakur and Pawan Gupta were found guilty on all counts earlier this week.
Judge Yogesh Khanna said the case
fell in the "rarest of rare category", rejecting pleas for lighter
sentence.
The twenty three year old woman, was
attacked on a bus in December and died two weeks later. The case led to days of
violent protest across India and new laws against rape.
Handing down the sentence today, Judge Khanna said the
attack "shocked the collective conscience" of India, and that
"courts cannot turn a blind eye" to such crimes.
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