Tag: Nirbhaya convicts
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Justice delivered; 4 Nirbhaya convicts hanged 7 years after committing crime
A 23-year-old woman physiotherapist, who came to be known as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a running bus in south Delhi by six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road. She succumbed to injuries on December 29 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
March 20, 2020 -
4 Nirbhaya convicts to hang tomorrow morning as scheduled, says Delhi court, rejects all pleas
The Delhi court had on March 5 issued a fresh death warrant against the four convicts, ordering their execution at 5.30 am on March 20.
March 19, 2020 -
Nirbhaya convicts to hang on Mar 20 at 5.30 am, says Delhi court as all legal options exhausted
The four convicts in the gangrape case — which triggered massive nationwide outrage in 2012 – have been exploring every legal option one by one to stretch the date of their hanging as much as they can.
March 5, 2020 -
Nirbhaya case: Delhi court refuses to stay execution of 4 convicts scheduled tomorrow
The trial court on February 17 issued a fresh death warrant against the four convicts ordering their execution on March 3.
March 2, 2020 -
Delhi court rejects Nirbhaya convict Vinay’s plea seeking medical treatment for ‘mental illness’
During the hearing, the court observed that 'general anxiety and depression in case of a death row convict is obvious'.
February 22, 2020 -
Nirbhaya convict’s injuries ‘self-inflicted, superficial’, mentally sound: Tihar to Delhi court
An application, moved through his lawyer AP Singh, had mentioned that Vinay Sharma, 26, sustained a grievous head injury, fracture in the right arm and suffers from mental illness and schizophrenia.
February 22, 2020 -
Nirbhaya convict Vinay ‘sustains head injury, can’t recognise mother’: Lawyer to Delhi court
The application, moved through his lawyer AP Singh, has mentioned that Vinay Sharma, 26, sustained a grievous head injury, fracture in the right arm and suffers from mental illness and schizophrenia.
February 20, 2020 -
Nirbhaya convict ‘banged’ head against cell wall in bid to ‘hurt’ himself: Tihar official
The four convicts -- Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur Singh and Pawan Gupta -- are to be hanged at 6 am on March 3.
February 20, 2020 -
Nirbhaya convicts to be hanged at 6 am on March 3, Delhi court issues fresh death warrant
The new date of execution was issued as the 7-day deadline set by the Delhi High Court for the exhaustion of all legal remedies ended and there is no petition pending in any court as of date.
February 17, 2020 -
Delhi court offers Nirbhaya convict legal aid; victim’s mother breaks down, says ‘losing hope’
The court gave Pawan Gupta the 'liberty to choose' his counsel from the list of empanelled advocates of the Delhi State Legal Service Authority after advocate AP Singh apprised the court that he no longer represents him.
February 12, 2020 -
‘Criminally sinful’: Plea for Nirbhaya convicts’ hanging date rejected over pending legal remedies
The Delhi High Court had on Wednesday ruled that all the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case should exercise their legal remedies within a week.
February 7, 2020 -
Delhi HC gives Nirbhaya convicts one week to exhaust all legal remedies against hanging
The court said the death warrant against the four convicts cannot be executed separately as Delhi prison rules do not state that if mercy petition of one convict is pending, the execution of the other convicts can take place.
February 5, 2020 -
Delhi HC to hold urgent hearing today on execution of Nirbhaya case convicts
The Tihar Jail authorities approached the High Court and challenged the trial court’s Friday order which had stayed the execution of the convicts till further orders.
February 1, 2020 -
No hanging of Nirbhaya convicts tomorrow as Delhi court defers execution till further orders
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court had rejected one of the convicts Pawan Gupta's claim of being a minor in 2012 when the brutal incident happened.
January 31, 2020 -
SC rejects curative plea of Nirbhaya convict; lawyer asks Delhi court to stay execution
Akshay Thakur Singh was the third convict to file a curative petition challenging the death penalty after Vinay Sharma and Mukesh.
January 30, 2020 -
SC rejects Nirbhaya convict Mukesh’s plea, says ‘torture in jail not ground for mercy’
Mukesh Singh, one of the death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, had on Monday moved the top court seeking urgent hearing on his plea against the dismissal of his mercy petition by President
January 29, 2020 -
Hanging unlikely on Feb 1 as Nirbhaya convict Akshay files curative petition in SC
According to the provision of the Delhi Jail Manual, a convict should get 14 days time after his mercy petition is dismissed.
January 29, 2020