On December 16 2012, the young woman and her friend were lured into a private bus in the evening in Delhi where they were then attacked and the woman gang-raped by six men, brutalized with an iron rod before dumping them on to a road. The woman died due to the injuries in a Singapore hospital on December 29, 2012.
A trial court sentenced four convicts to death penalty and the high court had confirmed the sentence. The number of accused came down from six to four as one of the accused, Ram Singh, who drove the bus around the city, hanged himself in prison in March 2013 before conviction, while another person was months short of turning 18, thus a juvenile at the time of the crime.
The juvenile was sentenced to three years in prison -- the maximum punishment for minors. He walked out of a reforms home in December 2015. His was the first verdict in a case that sparked debate over whether India is too soft on young offenders. The crime forced an overhaul of juvenile laws, allowing juveniles between 16 and 18 years to be treated as an adult if they commit a heinous crime.