Nirbhaya's Soul Must Have Found Peace Today: DCW Chief Swati Maliwal

DCW Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Friday said that India has given a strong message to rapists that those who commit this crime will be hanged

Photo: ANI

New Delhi: Welcoming the hanging of four Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Friday said it is a historic day today as Nirbhaya has got justice after seven years. Maliwal also said that India has given a strong message to rapists that those who commit such crime will be hanged. The four convicts in the Nirbhaya case were hanged to death at 5:30 a.m. in Delhi's Tihar jail on Friday. "It is a historic day, Nirbhaya got justice after over seven years. Her soul must have found peace today. The country has given a strong message to rapists that those who commit this crime will be hanged." National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Friday said that an example has been set. "An example has been set today though it could have been done earlier. Now people know that they will be punished, you may extend the date but you will get punished," said Rekha Sharma. ALSO WATCH | Nirbhaya's Lawyer: Satisfied That Justice Prevailed  A handful of posters reading "thanks to judiciary" and "the morning of justice" surfaced outside the Tihar Jail premises today. Security was beefed up outside the Jail in view of the hanging of four convicts. In her first reaction, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi expressed satisfaction that justice was finally delivered and said that her faith in the judiciary had been vindicated. "Our fight for security of daughters across the country will continue" she said. "I returned from the Supreme Court, hugged my daughter's photograph and told her: 'Today, justice has been delivered'." "I dedicate this day - March 20 to all the women in the country because Nirbhaya got justice, today," she said.