More than seven years after committing the gruesome crime, the four men convicted for the brutal gang-rape and murder of a physiotherapy student in the national capital were hanged in Tihar Jail in the early hours of Friday.

The four convicts — Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh and Pawan Gupta — have finally paid the price for the heinous crime they committed in December 2012.

With the execution of the convicts, curtains have finally been brought down on the case which gathered dust for several years.

Over the years, the convicts adopted several man oeuvres todelay the hanging and even succeeded thrice. This time, however, they could not escape the clutches of the judiciary and were hanged till death.The case pertained to the gruesome gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl by six men in a moving bus on the fateful night of December 16, 2012.