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Earlier, on January 17, the trial court for the second time had fixed February 1 as the hanging date for all the four convicts in the case — Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan (25), Vinay (26) and Akshay (31) — in Tihar jail at 6 am.
A 23-year-old paramedic student, referred to as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, in a moving bus in south Delhi by six people before she was thrown out on the road.
One of the six accused in the case, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail in 2013.