After a seven-year-long legal battle, Nirbhaya's convicts were hanged in Delhi on Friday. Hailing the hanging, Nirbhaya's father said that "it is a day for all women of the country".

It's a day for all the women of this country, says Nirbhaya's father after convicts hanged in Delhi

All four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape case Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma were hanged in Delhi's Tihar jail amid high security.

All four convicts in Nirbhaya case hanged in Tihar jail

After the four convicts were hanged in the 2012 gangrape case, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi said she finally got justice. Also Read: All four convicts in Nirbhaya case hanged in Tihar jail "As soon as I returned from Supreme Court, I hugged the picture of my daughter and said today you got justice," Asha Devi said just minutes after the convicts were hanged.

I hugged picture of my daughter and said today you got justice: Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi

Delhi's Patiala House Court on Thursday rejected all petitions of the convicts in Nirbhaya gangrape case who sought a stay on their execution scheduled for March 20.

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