According to reports, officials at the Tihar Jail on Tuesday wrote to their counterparts at several prisons in Uttar Pradesh to seek the service of a hangman, in connection with the execution of the four rapists in the Nirbhaya case. According to updates, a Tihar jail official has said that they will be seeking the service of a hangman from Meerut.

Earlier, it had been reported that since there are no hangmen in Tihar jail, where the convicts are lodged, jail authorities are reaching out to other prisons across the country to provide them with one, for the purpose of execution of the four rapists involved in the Nirbhaya case. However, Tihar jail authorities today confirmed that there are proper arrangements at the jail to execute all the four convicts together.

A Delhi Court on Tuesday issued death warrants against all four convicts involved in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case (aka the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder incident). According to the order by, the rapists will be hanged on January 22 at 7 AM.

To be precise, it took exactly 7 years, 22 days for her to see the light of justice. Why the legal system in this country is so wound-up that it takes such an abnormally long time to close a case, even after the establishment of a fast-track court for the proceedings, remains up for investigation later.

After the 23-year-old psychotherapy intern, dubbed 'Nirbhaya', was brutally gang-raped and murdered in Munirka, a neighbourhood in South Delhi on December 16, 2012, the incident generated tremendous public outroar and media coverage demanding justice for the victim.

The accused in the case - Akshay Kumar, Pawan Gupta, Mukesh Singh, Ram Singh, Vinay Sharma, and a minor boy - were promptly arrested under charges of sexual assault and murder. In 2013, one of the accused, Ram Singh, died in police custody of possible suicide. All of the remaining accused were convicted by a fast-track trial court of rape and murder, and while the juvenile was given the maximum sentence of three years imprisonment at a reform facility, the rest were sentenced to death by hanging. Subsequently, the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court upheld this judgment.