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Two killers who took part in infamous gang-rape on board moving bus in India lose their appeal against their death sentences and are told they will hang next week Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh have lost appeals in India's Supreme Court They and two others on death row are due to be executed on January 22 Their 23-year-old victim died shortly after the attack in a case that shocked India Two of the Indian killers who took part in an infamous gang-rape on a moving bus have lost a final appeal against their death sentences. Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh were told they will be executed for the 2012 attack next week after the Supreme Court dismissed their plea to reconsider the sentence. Sharma, Singh and two others on death row are due to be hanged on January 22 unless the president grants clemency, which is considered unlikely. Sharma had claimed 'systemic and political bias' against him and said his family would suffer, but a five-judge panel rejected his claims, NDTV reported. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7885543/Two-killers-took-infamous-gang-rape-India-lose-death-sentence-appeal.html