The four convicts had tried everything to avoid the hanging, filing petition after petition. One of the convicts even tried, in vain, to use New Delhi’s pollution problem as an argument not to hang him. “Everyone is aware of what is happening in Delhi NCR in regard water and air,” said the petition filed by Mr. Kumar in December. One juvenile was convicted in the case and sentenced to three years in a reform facility; he has since been freed. Mr. Gupta’s family produced a school certificate that said he was 16 in 2012 but the courts have consistently rejected the claims.

Source: International New York Times March 20, 2020 00:33 UTC