{"id":321184,"date":"2020-03-20T06:54:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T06:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321184"},"modified":"2020-03-20T06:54:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T06:54:44","slug":"justice-has-prevailed-pm-modi-on-nirbhaya-convicts-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/justice-has-prevailed-pm-modi-on-nirbhaya-convicts-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Justice has prevailed\u2019: PM Modi on Nirbhaya convicts&#8217; execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320308 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_20200223-191100__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_20200223-191100__01.jpg 673w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_20200223-191100__01-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_20200223-191100__01-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_20200223-191100__01-616x420.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/>\u2018Justice has prevailed\u2019, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the four convicts in Nirbhaya rape and murder case were hanged at 5.30 am today in Tihar Jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cJustice has prevailed. It is of utmost importance to ensure dignity and safety of women,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Our Nari Shakti has excelled in every field. Together, we have to build a nation where the focus is on women empowerment, where there is emphasis on equality and opportunity,\u201d PM Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The four men &#8212; Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh\u00a0were executed for gang-raping the young woman on the night of December 16, 2012, so brutally that she died of her injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe finally got justice. Justice delayed, but not denied,\u201d Asha Devi, the mother of Nirbhaya\u00a0told reporters after the hanging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Justice has prevailed\u2019, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the four convicts in Nirbhaya rape and murder case were hanged at 5.30 am today in Tihar Jail. \u201cJustice has prevailed. It is of utmost importance to ensure dignity and safety of women,\u201d PM Modi tweeted. &#8220;Our Nari Shakti has excelled in every field. Together, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316,3177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321206,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321184\/revisions\/321206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}