‘Nirbhaya Case Was a Tsunami’: Advocate Aishwarya Bhati on Verdict

SC doesn’t uphold death penalties unless it falls in the ‘rarest of rare’ category. This one did: Aishwarya Bhati

The Supreme Court, on 5 May, upheld the earlier Delhi High Court order awarding the death penalty to all four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case.

“It is a barbaric incident,” the court said, as an SC bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan threw out the convicts’ appeals against the death penalty.

“It’s a barbaric crime and it has shaken the society’s conscience,” Justice R Banumathi told the court, stressing on the need to educate children to respect women. Justice Misra, who read the operative portion of the judgement, said the offence created a “tsunami of shock”.

The Quint spoke to Aishwarya Bhati, advocate-on-record, Supreme Court on the judgement, and here’s what she had to say: