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 […]
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Nirbhaya convict files another curative plea claiming juvenility
New Delhi: Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, on Tuesday again knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court claiming to be a juvenile. In his second curative petition filed through his lawyer A.P. Singh, Pawan said that new evidence has emerged in the […]
Nirbhaya case: Court seeks jail report on assault on convict
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday sought Action Taken Report (ATR) from Mandoli Jail authorities on an application filed by one of the death-row convicts in Nirbhaya rape case, Pawan Kumar Gupta, seeking registration of an FIR against two police personnel for allegedly physically assaulting him in jail last year. Metropolitan Magistrate Prayank Nayak […]
Nirbhaya case: Convict Pawan Gupta seeks FIR against policemen
New Delhi: Delhi’s Karkardooma court on Wednesday issued notice to Mandoli jail authorities on an application filed by one of the convicts in Nirbhaya rape case seeking FIR against two police personnel for allegedly beating him. convict Pawan Gupta moved the court asserting that the police officers allegedly thrashed him with sticks, fist and blows on […]
Nirbhaya case: Convict Pawan Gupta’s mercy petition rejected by President Kovind
President Ramnath Kovind on Wednesday rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Gupta, one of the four Nirbhaya rape and murder convicts. Pawan Gupta, on Monday had filed a mercy petiton before the President of India. He was the only convict who had not availed of the remedy of mercy petition. And now his mercy petition too […]
Nirbhaya convict Pawan Gupta files mercy plea before President a day before hanging
New Delhi: One of the death-row convicts in Nirbhaya rape case, Pawan Gupta, on Monday filed a mercy petiton before the President of India. He was the only convict who had not availed of the remedy of mercy petition. Another convict, Akshay, had last week filed another mercy plea, asserting that the previous one was “incomplete”. […]
Nirbhaya case: SC junks convict Pawan Gupta’s curative petition
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday dismissed the curative petition filed by Pawan Gupta, the last of the four convicts on death row in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case. With this, all four have exhausted their legal remedies. A five-judge bench headed by Justice N. V. Ramana, considered the curative plea in-chamber, also rejected […]
Nirbhaya case: 3 days before hanging, Pawan files curative plea
New Delhi: Three days before the execution, Pawan Kumar, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, on Friday filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court, seeking commutation of capital punishment to life imprisonment. A death warrant has been issued against Pawan Kumar along with three other condemned prisoners […]
Nirbhaya case: Convict refuses to meet new legal aid
New Delhi: One of the death row convicts in Nirbhaya rape and murder case, Pawan Gupta, has refused to meet his new legal aid in Tihar Jail. Ravi Qazi was appointed counsel for Pawan last week after his erstwhile lawyer A.P. Singh recused himself from the case. Pawan has yet not availed the remedy of […]
Nirbhaya case: Court appoints lawyer to represent death-row convict Pawan Gupta
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday appointed advocate Ravi Qazi to represent one of the death-row convicts, Pawan Gupta, in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case after his erstwhile lawyer denied him legal aid. The court gave Pawan the “liberty to choose” his counsel from the list of empanelled advocates of the Delhi State Legal […]