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.
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.
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.
The trial court on February 17 issued a fresh death warrant against the four convicts ordering their execution on March 3.
During the hearing, the court observed that 'general anxiety and depression in case of a death row convict is obvious'.
Mukesh Singh's lawyer argued before the Supreme Court that all records were not sent to the President and therefore his decision to reject mercy was 'arbitrary and malafide'.
This came as Mukesh Singh, one of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya case sought an urgent hearing in the Supreme Court on his plea against the dismissal of his mercy plea by the President earlier today.
The four convicts in the Nirbhaya case -- Akshay Thakur Singh, Pawan Gupta, Mukesh Singh and Vinay Sharma -- are set to be hanged at 6 am on February 1.
As per law, convicts on death-row can choose which family member they want to meet for the last time and when.
The Centre moved the Supreme Court seeking modification of its January 2014 judgement that didn't specify deadline for availing legal remedies.
