Nirbhaya case: Four convicts -- Vinay, Mukesh, Akshay, and Pawan are scheduled to be hanged by the noose on March 20 at 5:30 a.m. for brutally raping and murdering a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on December 16, 2012.
While the widowed mother of brothers Ram Singh and Mukesh Singh has left the locality and gone back to her family in Rajasthan, the families of Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta still live in the slum colony. The four Nirbhaya case convicts are slated to be hanged on Thursday, at 5:30 am.
Supreme Court dismisses the curative petition of one of the convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case, Pawan Gupta, against the dismissal of his review plea rejecting his juvenility claim.
Nirbhaya case: The four convicts in the 2012 case -- Mukesh Singh, Akshay Singh Thakur, Pawan Gupta, and Vinay Sharma -- were earlier scheduled to be hanged in January. The date was later postponed to February and then to March, this year.
In another manoeuvre to delay the ensuing death sentence slated for Friday, the death-row convicts, through their counsel A.P. Singh, once again knocked on the doors of the trial court seeking stay on their hanging on the grounds that their legal remedies are pending.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved order on the plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, challenging a trial court order dismissing his plea that he was not in the national capital when the crime took place on December 16, 2012.
The Nirbhaya gangrape case pertains to the brutal gang-rape and killing of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012, by six people including a juvenile in the national capital.
A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed the plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking quashing of his death penalty.
Nirbhaya case: Convict Mukesh Kumar's plea before Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana claimed he was arrested from Rajasthan and brought to Delhi on December 17, 2012, one day after the crime.
Nirbhaya case: Earlier on Monday, the Supreme Court had refused to entertain Mukesh's plea seeking restoration of legal remedies alleging that his earlier counsel misled and forced him to sign the papers.
The Supreme Court Monday refused to entertain the plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four death-row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, seeking restoration of legal remedies alleging that his earlier counsel misled and forced him to sign the papers.
With just five days left for the execution of the death sentence in the infamous 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the families of the convicts on Sunday appealed to President Ram Nath Kovind to grant the convicts a death by euthanasia.
With just five days left for the execution of death sentence in the sensational 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Tihar Jail authorities on Sunday said they have asked the hangman to report three days ahead of the scheduled hanging.
Vinay Sharma, one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case, on Friday approached High Court claiming procedural lapse in rejection of his mercy plea by President Ram Nath Kovind.
Vinay Sharma, a death row convict in the gangrape and murder of a paramedical student in 2012, on Monday approached the Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor’s office demanding that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment
Nirbhaya case: The court on Monday, for the third time, had stayed the death sentence of four convicts in the case observing that they cannot be executed while a mercy petition is pending before the President.
Nirbhaya case: The court on Monday, for the third time, had stayed the death sentence of four convicts in the case observing that they cannot be executed while a mercy petition is pending before the President.
The father of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim on Wednesday expressed hope that the convicts will be hanged this month, after President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four men facing the gallows in the case.
President rejects the mercy plea of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case convict, Pawan. Now a new death warrant of the culprits will be issued.
Nirbhaya case: Convict Pawan Gupta had filed a fresh mercy petition on Monday before the President of India, hours after the Supreme Court had dismissed his curative petition.
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