Nirbhaya case: Convicts’ bodies handed over to families for last rites

NEW DELHI: Bodies of the four Nirbhaya gangrape and murder convicts were handed over to their respective families for last rites on Friday after the post-mortem was conducted at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital here, jail officials said.

Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) were executed Friday at 5.30 am for the savage assault in a moving bus on a 23-year-old paramedical student who came to be known the world over as Nirbhaya, the fearless one.

Jail officials said the bodies were kept hanging for half an hour, a mandatory procedure after execution as per the prison manual.

“After the doctor examined the bodies and declared all four dead, they were sent to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospi