The Delhi government, led by Arvind Kejriwal, will appeal the Supreme Court’s decision acquitting three convicts in a 2012 gangrape and murder case.

The filing of a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging the acquittal of the three men was approved this morning by Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, just days after the victim’s parents met him and said they were “broken” by the verdict.

Out of fear, they had also sought police protection.

The Delhi government will be represented in the case by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati.

The three men were accused of kidnapping, raping, and killing the 19-year-old woman in Delhi’s Chhawla in February 2012, months before the Nirbhaya case. Her body was discovered three days later in a field in Haryana with multiple injuries. According to her severe wounds, she was hit with car tools and earthen pots.

In February 2014, a Delhi court convicted the accused and sentenced them to death. On August 26, 2014, the Delhi High Court upheld the death penalty, stating that they were “predators” on the streets looking for prey.

They appealed the high court decision to the Supreme Court, requesting that their sentence be reduced. On November 7, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, Justices S Ravindra Bhat, and Bela M Trivedi overturned the High Court ruling, noting that the prosecution had failed to provide “leading, cogent, clinching, and clear evidence against the accused.”

The Delhi Police argued in the Supreme Court that the crime was heinous and that no concessions should be made to the convicts.