The execution was India’s first in five years but it sparked celebrations outside the prison this morning as the hangings were carried out around 5.30am.
Speaking outside the jail after the hangings the victim’s mother Asha Devi told reporters: ‘We are satisfied that finally my daughter got justice after seven years. The beasts have been hanged.’
Police and paramilitary personnel were deployed to maintain security outside the prison while the executions took place as groups with placards gathered by the gates.

Jyoti Singh [L-R] died from her injuries 12 days after she was beaten with a metal rod and gang-raped in a bus in Damini, Delhi on Dec 16, 2012

Speaking just minutes after the executions, the victim’s mother added: ‘I hugged my daughter’s photograph and told her we finally got justice.’
Her father added that his ‘faith in the judiciary had been restored’. 
The victim could not be named in India under Indian law but was dubbed Nirbhaya – the fearless one – by the press until her mother said she wanted Jyoti Singh’s real name to be remembered.
She died as a result of her injuries in a Singapore hospital 12 days after the attack and six people were arrested for her murder.

Jyoti’s parents Asha Devi and Badri Singh, seen in a 2013 photo, swore they would not rest until their daughter’s killers were brought to justice

As well as the four convicts who were executed, two others involved include Ram Singh, who was found dead in jail in March 2013, in an apparent suicide.
And another, who was just 17 at the time of the attack and was released in 2015 after serving three years in a reform facility, which is the maximum term possible for a juvenile in India.
All four of those who were executed had recently filed petitions appealing for their sentences to be reduced to life imprisonment.
But these were rejected by the Supreme Court.
The four had stood trial relatively quickly in India’s slow-moving justice system, their convictions and sentences handed down less than a year after the crime.

India’s Supreme Court upheld the guilty verdicts in 2017, finding the men’s crimes had created a ‘tsunami of shock’ among Indians.
‘The four convicts were hanged together at 5.30 am,’ said Sandeep Goel, head of the Tihar Jail in New Delhi.
Jyoti Singh, 23-year-old student was attacked on December 16, 2012, after boarding a bus on the way home from the cinema with her date. All of the suspects  on the bus – Ram Singh, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta did menial jobs and lived in a slum in south Delhi.
The six assailants knocked out her boyfriend and dragged the woman to the back of the vehicle driven by the Ram Singh, where they raped and assaulted her with a metal rod.
After an ordeal lasting more than an hour, she and the friend were dumped for dead.
She was studying physiotherapy and worked at a call centre. Her family had moved from a rural area and her father earned around $100 a month as an airport baggage handler.
Singh survived long enough to identify her attackers and all six were arrested. Four were convicted in 2013.
A fifth, the suspected ringleader Ram Singh, was found dead in jail in a suspected suicide, while the 17-year-old spent three years in a juvenile detention centre.