A December 2012 photo shows Indian protesters during a rally in New Delhi after the death of the 23-year-old gang rape victim, an attack that shocked the world. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
INDIA'S Supreme Court has stayed the death sentence of two of four men convicted of fatally gang raping a student on a bus in New Delhi, an attack that sparked weeks of protests.
The court has suspended the execution of the two men, Mukesh Singh and Pawan Gupta, while an appeal is heard and asked authorities to "communicate the order to prison authorities".
The court held an emergency weekend sitting to hear the motion for the stay of execution.
It was not immediately known when the executions had been due to be carried out.
Protest... An activist marches during an anti-rape rally on June 18, 2013 in Kolkata, India. Picture: Getty Source: AFP
The two, Gupta and Singh, appealed to the Supreme Court after the High Court upheld earlier in the week the death penalty handed to the four men convicted of the gang rape last September.
The attack sparked weeks of angry protests against a culture sexual violence towards women across India.
Stay of execution... Indian Defence lawyer AP Singh addresses the media outside the Saket Court complex in New Delhi in September. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
Last Thursday, the Delhi High Court upheld the four men's sentences in the death of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student, saying the case fell in the "rarest of rare category" under which India carries out execution.
The Supreme Court was told the other two men convicted of the crime, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur, had not approached the top court to appeal the High Court ruling.
A fifth suspect had been discovered dead in his jail, in what authorities said was a suspected suicide.
The sixth member of the group, a juvenile at the time of the crime, is serving a three-year sentence.
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