Rape cases

State vs. Six accused — 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape and murder case (Nirbhaya)

On December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped, brutally assaulted, and murdered in a moving bus in south Delhi. Six people were accused of the crime; one was a juvenile. Four adult convicts were sentenced to death and executed in March 2020 at Tihar jail. The case led to significant reforms in sexual assault laws in India.