Three other men involved in the attack in 2013 were sentenced to life imprisonment while two of the nine men charged were acquitted due to lack of evidence and one died in jail.
“We are happy with the verdict and sentencing,” said the brother the victims at the court in Kolkata, according to Reuters.
The public prosecutor said the use of the death penalty was justified due to the “brutality inflicted on the victim.”
The rape and murder of the college student in Kamduni village in the eastern state of West Bengal was shocking in its brutality and reminiscent of the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in Delhi a year earlier.
