A Delhi Court on Monday stays the execution of the four convicts in 2012 gangrape and murder case and defers the matter for further orders.
The Supreme Court on Monday has rejected the curative petition of Pawan Gupta, one of the convicts of 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case.
Akshay Thakur, one of the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, on Saturday moved “complete” mercy petition, claiming that the petition filed by him earlier, and which was dismissed by President Ram Nath Kovind, was “incomplete”.
Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, on Friday filed a curative petition before the Supreme Court seeking to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment.Gupta is the fourth convict in the case to file a curative petition.
The Delhi Patiala House Court on Saturday dismissed the petition of convict Vinay Sharma, 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, seeking direction to provide high-level medical treatment to him.
Advocate AP Singh, lawyer of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, on Thursday said that he has filed a complaint before the Election Commission of India because the mercy petition Vinay Sharma was forwarded to the President at a time when Model Code of Conduct was in force in Delhi.
Supreme Court judge Justice R Banumathi fainted in the courtroom on Friday while dictating the order on the Centre’ plea seeking separate hanging of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
Delhi court has adjourned for February 17 the hearing on the plea of the state and Nirbhaya’s parents seeking issuance of the death warrant, as a petition challenging the rejection of mercy plea of convict Vinay is pending before the Supreme Court.
Tihar Jail authorities will approach a Delhi court, seeking a new date for the execution of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case.
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