Nirbhaya's dying declaration: I want them hanged till death, burnt alive

"I want them hanged till death... I want to see them burnt alive," Nirbhaya had said in her dying statement, recorded in Safdarjung Hospital on December 21, 2012.

On December 16, 2012, six men had attacked Nirbhaya after she boarded a bus with a friend. The two were returning after watching a movie at Saket City Walk Mall.

In the "dying declaration" made in front of a magistrate on December 21, eight days before she died, Nirbhaya had stated: "I want them to be hanged so that no other criminal can do this kind of torture and ill-treatment to any other girl. In fact, such criminals should be burnt alive."

She further said that there were "six or seven" people on the bus and the duo assumed they were passengers. Nirbhaya said she suspected something amiss after the conductor locked the bus door. "He shut the lights and started abusing and beating my friend. The others took me to the back of the bus. They tore my clothes and raped me in turns. They hit me with an iron rod and bit me on my entire body," she said.

Nirbhaya and her friend put up a fierce fight but were outnumbered and their screams for help went unheard. She said she was unconscious most of the time, but each time she woke up, they attacked her again.

"I heard these people saying 'catch them, tear their clothes, hit them and take her bag'. All the time, we were in total darkness and they all looked black. By their language, they seemed to be driver-cleaner type people," she stated. "They inserted a rod inside my body," she said in a December 23 declaration.