A Delhi court today dismissed a plea seeking a stay on the execution of Nirbhaya's rapists, and they will all be hanged tomorrow at 5.30 am.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has dismissed a plea from one of the convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, challenging the rejection of his second mercy petition by the President of India.
The top court has also refused to entertain a plea from Mukesh Singh, another convict, challenging a Delhi High Court order that had rejected his claim of not being in Delhi on December 16, 2012.
Nirbhaya was gangraped by six people in a moving bus that night: it was a display of brutality so unhinged that Indians, left shaking with fury, poured into the streets to demand justice.
Four of the rapists -- Mukesh Singh (32), Akshay Kumar Singh (31), Pawan Gupta (25) and Vinay Sharma (26) -- are on death row and will be hanged tomorrow.
Another killed himself in jail and the sixth -- a juvenile -- was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term.
This is the first time that four men will be hanged together in Tihar Jail -- South Asia's largest prison complex, which houses more than 16,000 inmates.
Nirbhaya's mother, Asha Devi, says she will now get peace.
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