Nirbhaya convicts hanging News
"Thanks to judiciary" and "the morning of justice" posters surfaced outside the Tihar Jail premises in the wee hours of Friday (March 20, 2020).
The perpetrators of Nirbhaya were hanged at 5.30 am at Delhi's Tihar Jail today (March 20, 2020). The execution was carried out by Pawan also known as Pawan Jallad from UP's Meerut.
The convicts of the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case on Sunday (March 15, 2020) wrote a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking permission for euthanasia.
Ravi Qazi, while talking with ANI said that as there was no communication in the last few days, therefore, he could not move Pawan Gupta's legal remedies.
The Patiala House Court will hear a plea seeking the issuance of a new death warrant against Nirbhaya's convicts on Monday (February 17). In the last hearing, the Tihar Jail authorities had said that Pawan informed that he does not need a lawyer.
Sharma's lawyer contended that the former was undergoing psychological problems due to ill-treatment and solitary confinement in jail.
The petition has been filed Nirbhaya's parents, the court issued notice to the convicts seeking their reply by Wednesday.
The matter will come up for hearing before the 3-judge bench, comprising Justices R Bhanumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna, around 12.30 PM.
The Centre had moved the top court, seeking an urgent listing of its appeal against the Delhi High Court verdict rejecting its plea against stay on execution of Nirbhaya case convicts.
The High Court verdict will also decide if all guilty can be hanged together or those whose mercy petitions have been rejected can be executed earlier.
The court passed the order while hearing the petition filed by Centre and the Tihar Jail authorities challenging the trial court`s order which had stayed the execution of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case.
A Delhi court had on January 31 stayed for an indefinite period, the death warrants issued against the four death row convicts -- Akshay, Pawan, Mukesh and Vinay.
This is the second mercy plea to be rejected by the President in the horrific Dec 16 gangrape-murder case.
This petition demands the top court to reconsider its January 20 decision in which it had rejected Pawan's plea.
In Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, Patiala House Court on Friday (January 31) will hear the plea of death row convicts seeking a stay on the date of the execution on Saturday (February 1).
Nirbhaya rape and murder case convict Vinay Sharma requested the President to spare time so that his lawyer AP Singh should submit his side before him verbally.
Delhi court on Saturday (January 25) allowed the lawyer of the convicts to take a photocopy of painting and notebook titled `Darinda` written by convict Vinay in prison.
The convicts are to be hanged at 7 am on Wednesday, January 22. This is the first time in the history of India that four death row convicts will be hanged together.
In a big development, Delhi's Patiala House court on Tuesday (January 7) issued a death warrant for the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. The four convicts - Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta - will be hanged at 7 am on January 22.
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