Reportedly the four men convicted in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case were executed this morning. The supreme court, after a midnight hearing, rejected a last minute plea filed by one of the convicts seeking a review of the death penalty. The four men akshay kumar Singh, pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and mukesh Singh were hanged at 5:30 am at Delhi's Tihar Jail. The four were convicted for the gang-raping and murdering a 23 year old medical student, who came to be called Nirbhaya, in a moving bus in delhi in december 2012. Nirbhaya subsequently died of her injuries.

The bodies of the four Nirbhaya convicts was taken to Delhi's Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital for post-mortem examinations. The post-mortem examinations had begun at 8 am. The bodies was handed to the families of the four convicts once the post-mortem examinations are completed. The four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case did not express any last wishes before being hanged this morning, the director general of tihar jail, where the executions took place, has said.

Moreover the bodies of the four Nirbhaya convicts were lowered and checked by a doctor. As per protocol, bodies of convicts who are executed are kept hanging for 30 minutes before being lowered. The bodies of the four Nirbhaya convicts have been lowered and checked by a doctor who has declared all the four dead. The bodies was sent for post-mortem. Speaking to media shortly after the four Nirbhaya convicts were hanged, the victim's mother, Asha Devi, thanked the judiciary and the government for ensuring that the rapists of her daughter were executed. "It may have taken time, but justice was finally delivered," she said. There was hectic activity outside Delhi's tihar jail where four men convicted for the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder are to be executed in the next few minutes. Hundreds of people have gathered outside the jail premises in delhi where paramilitary forces have been deployed to ensure security.

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