New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday observed that there is no “plausible reason” to suspend the execution of death sentence of the Nirbhaya rape case convicts and dismissed their application seeking a stay on their hanging. The four convicts — Vinay, Mukesh, Akshay, and Pawan — will now be hanged by the noose on Friday, […]
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Nirbhaya case convict’s wife breaks down after plea dismissed
New Delhi: Wife of one of the death-row convicts, Akshay Singh, broke down in the courtroom as the judge dismissed an application seeking stay on execution. “How will I live now? Please hang me too,” Akshay’s wife told the court after the pronouncement of order. Nirbhaya’s mother was present in the court when the high-level […]
How Nirbhaya case convicts will be executed
New Delhi: With hours left for the execution of four men convicted of rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, the preparation to hang them by the noose is in full swing in Tihar Jail. Pawan Jallad, the hangman from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district, has been tasked with the duty to hang the four […]
Nirbhaya case: No legal remedies pending: Tihar tells court
New Delhi: The Tihar jail authorities on Thursday told the trial court that none of the legal remedies of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case are pending, as the court reserved its order on an application filed by the convicts seeking stay on their execution scheduled for 5.30 a.m. on Friday. Additional Sessions […]
Nirbhaya case: SC dismisses curative petition of convict Pawan Gupta
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the curative petition preferred by Pawan Gupta, one of the four convicts awarded the death sentence in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. “We have gone through the curative petition and the relevant documents, In our opinion, no case is made out within the parameters […]
Delhi HC dismisses Nirbhaya case convict Mukesh Singh’s plea
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed an application filed by Mukesh Singh, one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, challenging the trial court order that had dismissed his plea, seeking stay on the execution claiming he was not present in Delhi on December 16, 2012, the night […]
Nirbhaya case: Court pulls up lawyer on new plea to defer hanging
New Delhi: A court here on Wednesday came down heavily on the lawyer representing the death-row convicts in Nirbhaya rape case, asking him why he always approaches court at the last hour. 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 […]
Nirbhaya convict Mukesh Singh knocks HC against trial court order
New Delhi: Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder, on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court challenging trial court order which had dismissed his plea seeking stay on the execution. Mukesh in the petition had claimed that he was not present in Delhi when the crime […]
Nirbhaya case hangings: Hangman conducts dummy trial
New Delhi: With all preparations in place once again at the Tihar Central Jail here for the March 20 hanging to death of four convicts awarded the capital punishment in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, a ‘dummy trial’ was held on the prison premises on Wednesday morning. Hangman Pawan, who was brought […]
Nirbhaya case convict Mukesh moves court to quash hanging
New Delhi: Mukesh Singh, one of the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, on Tuesday moved a court here to seek quashing of his death sentence on the pretext that he was not present in Delhi when the crime occurred on December 16 that year. In support of his contention, Mukesh […]