India hangs four over 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape

NEW DELHI: India executed four men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion.

The four were hanged before dawn at Tihar Jail in the Indian capital, prison chief Sandeep Goel told AFP. "The beasts have been hanged," the victim’s mother told reporters outside the jail.

The brutal attack on Jyoti Singh sparked weeks of demonstrations and shone a spotlight on the alarming rates of sexual violence and the plight of women in India, where around 95 rapes are reported daily.

"We are satisfied that finally my daughter got justice after seven years," Singh’s mother Asha Devi said, as a small crowd celebrated outside the prison.

"Today all Indian women received justice," Delhi resident Meena Sharma told AFP, clutching an Indian flag. "I came here around 3:00 am in the morning. I waited here as today is a great day for us."