A Delhi court has pronounced the death sentence for all four convicts in the Delhi gang-rape case. Earlier, the four -- Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma -- had all pleaded not guilty to the charges, which included murder, gang rape and theft.

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A Delhi court has pronounced the death sentence for all four convicts in the Delhi gang-rape case. The court while pronouncing the judgment said that "it cannot turn a blind eye on the rising cases of sexual assualt against women" and that the incident shook the "collective conscience of the society". The court said the case falls under rarest of rare category. Earlier, the four -- Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma -- had all pleaded not guilty to the charges, which included murder, gang rape and theft.

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Mukesh Singh (26) was convicted along with three of gang rape and murder of the December 16.

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Vinay Sharma (19) - was convicted along with three of gang rape and murder of the December 16.

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Pawan Gupta (19) was convicted along with three of gang rape and murder of the December 16.

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Akshay Thakur (28) was convicted along with three of gang rape and murder of the December 16.

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Gym instructor Vinay Sharma, bus cleaner Akshay Kumar Singh, fruit-seller Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh, who were found guilty in all 13 charges, including murder and rape, were given death sentence by judge Yogesh Khanna today.

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"The accused have also tried to destroy the evidence after the incident, so they are convicted under section 201 of the IPC. They had abducted the victim to have illicit intercourse with her, so they are convicted under section 366 of the IPC," the judge had said while pronouncing the judgement on Tuesday. (BCCL)

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The mother of one of the four men, found guilty of the fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi last year, cries upon seeing the news on a court verdict on a TV inside her house at a slum in New Delhi September 10, 2013. (BCCL)

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Tight police vigil at Ravidas Slum after the conviction of four accused in the Dec 16 bus gang rape case, at Saket court in New Delhi. (BCCL)

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On the night of December 16, last year, Ram Singh, Vinay, Akshay, Pawan, Mukesh and the juvenile had gang-raped the girl in a bus after luring her and her 28-year-old male friend, who was also assaulted, on board the vehicle, which was later found to be plying illegally on Delhi roads.

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