Nirbhaya case convicts hanging News
Pawan Gupta is the fourth convict in the case to file a curative petition in the apex court.
The Supreme Court on Monday (March 2) will hear the curative petition of one of death row convicts in Nirbhaya case, Pawan Gupta, who approached the top court on Sunday seeking a direction that his plea should be heard in an open court. The convict`s lawyer AP Singh submitted this plea as the matter is related to the death penalty.
Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi on Friday said that her family will continue the legal battle till her daughter's rapists are executed. ''The lawyer of the convicts, AP Singh has challenged me saying that the convicts will never be executed. I will continue my fight. The government will have to execute the convicts,'' a teary-eyed Asha Devi said after a Delhi court postponed the execution of death warrants till further order.
Mukesh approached the top court on Monday seeking urgent hearing on his plea against the dismissal of his mercy petition by the President.
A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde and comprising Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant said, "If somebody is going to be hanged, then nothing can be more urgent than this."
The hanging of all the four convicts will take place at the same time in Delhi's Tihar jail.
The convicts, however, have been lodged in different cells even in the same jail, and not together.
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