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India.com News Desk February 17, 2020 4:17 PM IST
The hanging of all four Nirbhaya convicts will now take place on March 3 at 6 AM in Delhi's Tihar Jail.
India.com News Desk February 14, 2020 6:30 PM IST
The guidelines come after four convicts Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar (31) in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case of 2012 adopted several tactics to delay the execution.
India.com News Desk February 14, 2020 3:06 PM IST
Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta urged the court that the pendency of Akshay's filing a petition won't come in the way of the issuance of a fresh date of execution.
India.com News Desk February 14, 2020 2:23 PM IST
With this, both Mukesh and Vinay have exhausted all their legal options, inching closer to execution.
India.com News Desk February 13, 2020 2:19 PM IST
The advocate said that the official file didn't have the signatures of the home minister and the LG that they are supposed to do because of the election, according to the advocate. He said that the signature was obtained by OSD on WhatsApp.
India.com News Desk February 13, 2020 11:58 AM IST
The top court also gave the convicts time to file their counter replies on the Centre's petition by then.
India.com News Desk February 13, 2020 6:26 AM IST
The Supreme Court on Tuesday also issued a notice to the four convicts seeking their response on the Centre's appeal challenging the Delhi High Court verdict which dismissed its plea against stay on their execution.
India.com News Desk February 13, 2020 5:30 AM IST
On February 1, the President rejected Sharma's plea in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case.
India.com News Desk February 11, 2020 4:03 PM IST
The development comes after President Ram Nath Kovind on February 1 rejected his mercy plea in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case. Vinay Sharma had recently filed a mercy petition in the matter.
India.com News Desk February 7, 2020 3:51 PM IST
The Supreme Court has deferred the hearing of Centre's plea for the separate hanging of the four convicts. The case will be taken up on February 11.
India.com News Desk February 7, 2020 12:01 AM IST
A three-judge bench, comprising Justices R Bhanumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna, will hear the government's plea at 12:30 PM against the Delhi High Court's verdict.
India.com News Desk February 6, 2020 12:38 PM IST
The High Court also gave the convicts a week's time to avail all legal remedies.
India.com News Desk February 5, 2020 8:35 PM IST
The Delhi HC, headed by Justice Suresh Kumar Kait, also stated that the four accused - Pawan, Vinay, Akshay and Mukesh - cannot be executed separately.
India.com News Desk February 5, 2020 5:11 PM IST
The court, however, refused to set aside the trial court order postponing the execution of the death warrant against four convicts.
India.com News Desk February 5, 2020 2:53 PM IST
If they fail to do so, the authorities will deal with the situation as per law, Justice Suresh Kumar Kait said.
India.com News Desk February 5, 2020 12:00 AM IST
Expressing concern over the delay in execution, the victim s parents urged the court to quickly hear the Centre's plea and take the decision.
India.com News Desk February 2, 2020 5:55 PM IST
The MHA had approached court seeking execution of at least two of the convicts-Mukesh Singh and Vinay Sharma.
India.com News Desk February 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 February 1, 2020 6:57 PM IST
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, said that all four convicts are taking the process of law for a joy ride.
India.com News Desk February 1, 2020 11:07 AM IST
Going by today's rejection, the convicts can be hanged on February 15 if there are no legal hurdles in between. Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta have not yet filed any mercy plea.
India.com News Desk January 31, 2020 6:36 PM IST
This is the second time the execution has been delayed, after the Delhi Court already shifted the date from January 22 to February 1. The development comes minutes after Pawan Gupta s claim of being a minor at the time of the offence was dismissed by the Supreme Court.
India.com News Desk January 31, 2020 12:21 PM IST
Amid uncertainty over the date of the execution of the four convicts of Nirbhaya gangrape, Pawan Jallad, the third-generation hangman from the Meerut Prison, has arrived in Tihar Jail on Thursday, two days ahead of the scheduled execution on February 1.
India.com News Desk January 31, 2020 10:01 AM IST
According to reports, he will be staying on the jail premises and check the strength of the rope and other related things on Friday.
India.com News Desk January 30, 2020 12:14 PM IST
With Vinay mercy petition pending in front of the President, the scheduled hanging of the four Mukesh, Akshay, Vinay, Pawan on February 1 seems uncertain.
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