New Delhi: In yet another ploy to delay hanging, wife of a Nirbhaya convict has filed for a divorce in a local court in Bihar’s Aurangabad. In the plea, the wife of convict Akshay Kumar Singh has said she does not want to live the life of a widow as her husband is set to be […]
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SC quashes convict’s review plea, #Nirbhaya trends on Twitter
New Delhi: Even as the Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a review petition of Nirbhaya rape convict Akshay Kumar Singh, #NirbhayaCase trended on Twitter with 2,023 tweets. One user wrote: “Hang all the rapists till death, whether they are minor or not… hang all of them… rapist is a rapist… no mercy for him.” Another […]
SC rejects Akshay’s death penalty review in Nirbhaya case
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the petition of Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the four convicts on death row, seeking review of death penalty handed down to him in Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case. A bench headed by Justice R. Banumathi observed that Akshay’s review petition was similar to the petitions filed by […]