India.com News Desk | Mar 17, 2020, 12:17 PM IST
In the plea, he had argued that he was arrested from Rajasthan on December 17, 2012, a day after the incident took place, and, as such, wasn't even present at the crime spot. He had also alleged that he was tortured in Tihar Jail.
India.com News Desk | Mar 5, 2020, 2:40 PM IST
The executions of the four convicts had earlier been deferred thrice due to strategic filing of mercy pleas and curative petitions by the convicts.
India.com News Desk | Feb 2, 2020, 9:03 AM IST
The MHA had moved the court on Saturday seeking a fresh death warrant for at least two convicts-Mukesh and Vinay-both of whom have exercised all their legal options. In its plea, it accused the convicts of 'taking law for a joyride.'
India.com News Desk | Jan 28, 2020, 12:00 AM IST
President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected his mercy petition on January 17, just three days after the same was filed before him. However, due to this, the four convicts' scheduled January 22 execution was put off as according to prison rules, a death row convict can only be hanged 14 days after the rejection of his mercy plea.
India.com News Desk | Jan 24, 2020, 4:05 PM IST
AP Singh, the lawyer of Akshay, Pawan and Vinay-on Friday moved Patiala House Court, accusing prison authorities of not making available to them documents that are needed to file corrective pleas. The court will take up their plea against Tihar tomorrow.
India.com News Desk | Jan 13, 2020, 7:51 AM IST
The four convicts-Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta-will be hanged in Tihar at 7 AM on January 22. Two of them-Vinay and Mukesh-have filed curative petitions in the Supreme Court, which will take them up on Tuesday, against their death warrants.
India.com News Desk | Jan 7, 2020, 7:38 PM IST
Thanking the judicial system, Nirbhaya's grandfather said that even though the court took seven long years to complete the entire process of the trial, no one can say that the convicts were denied a chance to be heard.
India.com News Desk | Dec 12, 2019, 11:18 AM IST
Earlier, a social activist from Shimla and a head constable from Tamil Nadu had expressed their desire to hang the four convicts. According to reports, the Tihar Jail authorities have begun arrangements to carry out the execution.
India.com News Desk | Dec 9, 2019, 8:16 AM IST
According to reports, a directive to prepare 10 hanging ropes was sent to Buxar central jail superintendent three days ago. It came in the wake of the Home Ministry recommending President Ram Nath Kovind to reject the mercy petition of one of the convicts, Vinay Sharma.
India.com News Desk | Dec 3, 2019, 5:48 PM IST
Several reports have claimed that the four convicts on death row will be executed within the next 30 days. The last execution to be carried out at Tihar was that of Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru on February 9, 2013, when the lever was pulled by a jail official.
India.com News Desk | Nov 14, 2019, 1:35 PM IST
Hira Lal Gupta, the father of Pawan Kumar Gupta, filed a police complaint against Nirbhaya's friend, who is also the sole witness in the case. He cited a senior journalist's recent claims that he had made a sting video of the said friend accepting money for interviews.
India.com News Desk | Nov 8, 2019, 8:59 AM IST
In his book 'Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer,' Sunil Gupta, who was Tihar's Law Officer, attributes his suspicion over Ram Singh's death to two specific points
