A Delhi court on Thursday sought a status report from Tihar Jail authorities about the application filed by the Nirbhaya convict's lawyer seeking stay on the death sentence in view of the pendency of mercy plea of Vinay Sharma.
According to a letter sent by Registrar General, Delhi High Court, to the District Judge, Patiala House Courts, Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora has been transferred to the Supreme Court. Arora was hearing the Nirbhaya case.
The 23-year-old paramedic student, referred to as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, in a moving bus in south Delhi by six people before she was thrown out on the road.
The 23-year-old paramedical student was gang-raped in a moving bus and brutally murdered by six persons on the night of December 16, 2012. Out of the six, one was a minor and appeared before a juvenile justice court, while another accused had committed suicide in Tihar jail.
Our struggle does not end here. Justice is getting delayed. It's affecting other daughters of the society. I request judiciary to tighten their judicial system, serve justice to Nirbhaya by hanging them as soon as possible: Nirbhaya's mother
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