New Delhi: “Is it a crime to be a daughter of a poor family?” asked Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi in a video statement on the Hathras gangrape. She alleged that the issue was sought to be hushed up while referring to the victim as “Hathras’ Nirbhaya”. “I want to say that Hathras’ Nirbhaya did not […]
Tag: Nirbhaya
The last one hour before the convicts were hanged
New Delhi: It was 3 a.m. on Friday when all the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case were taken out from their barracks for a brief time. They were already awake as the “fear to be hanged” did not allow them to sleep. When the jail authorities asked them to finish their routine work […]
Nirbhaya convict’s wife moves court for divorce
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 […]
Centre asks SC for law to plug loopholes delaying convict’s hanging
New Delhi: The Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Friday urged the Supreme Court to lay down a law in the execution of death sentence, as the convicts in the Nirbhaya case were making a mockery of the process. The Supreme Court posted the Centre’s plea on February 11, when the one week time given by […]
Nirbhaya: Tihar jail moves court for fresh death warrants
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday sought a response from four convicts in Nirbhaya rape and murder case on a petition seeking issuance of fresh death warrants against them. Additional Session Judge Dharmendra Rana of Patiala House Court sought response on an application filed by the Tihar jail authories requesting it to fix a […]
Nirbhaya: SC to hear Centre’s plea challenging HC order
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will on Friday hear Centre and the Delhi Government’s appeal challenging the High Court’s order that said all four convicts must be hanged together, and not separately. In its appeal, the Centre said the question is whether a convict who has exhausted all his remedies can […]
Will be happy when convicts are hanged, Nirbhaya’s mother
New Delhi: Nirbhaya’s mother on Wednesday welcomed the verdict of the Delhi High Court which gave the rapists a week’s time to exercise their legal remedies and hoped that a final death warrant is issued against them soon. “I am satisfied with today’s order but I will be happy only when they are hanged,” Asha […]
‘People getting restive due to delay in justice to Nirbhaya’
New Delhi: Calling for implementation of the judgement in the Nirbhaya case at the earliest, Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said that people are getting restive due to delay in justice. “People (culprits) have been given every available legal opportunity. After getting all those avenues and opportunities exhausted, on some pretext or […]
Nirbhaya parents to move court after President rejects convict’s mercy plea
New Delhi: The parents of 2012 gang rape victim named ‘Nirbhaya’ by the media are all set to move a Delhi court seeking issuance of fresh death warrants against the four death row convicts after the President on Saturday rejected the mercy plea filed by one of the convicts Vinay Sharma. Speaking to IANS, Advocate […]
‘Nirbhaya convicts delaying execution, need strong law’
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday lamented that the convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case are finding ways to delay their execution and said the law should be amended so that rape convicts are hanged within six months. “I am sad that the convicts in Nirbhaya case are avoiding the […]