Tag: Nirbhaya Case Convict

New Delhi: Delhi is a gas chamber then why hand down the death penalty, said Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case while moving the Supreme Court seeking review of its 2017 judgement of sentencing all the four convicts to death. “Everyone is aware of what is […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed Nirbhaya case convict Pawan Gupta’s plea claiming to be a juvenile at the time of the offence. Justice Suresh Kait also imposed Rs 25,000 fine on Gupta’s advocate A.P. Singh, who didn’t appear, for playing hide and seek in the court. The court also asked the […]

New Delhi: The four death-row convicts in Nirbhaya rape and murder case will now be hanged on March 3 at 6 a.m., a local court here announced on Monday. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana pronounced the order on a petition seeking issuance of fresh date for execution of death warrants in the case pertaining to […]

New Delhi: One of the four convicts on death row in the Nirbhaya gang rape-murder case on Thursday moved the Election Commission of India to challenge the rejection of his mercy petition. Vinay Sharma, through his advocate AP Singh, told the poll body that the Model Code of Conduct was in place in Delhi when […]

New Delhi: One of the four death row convicts, Pawan Kumar Gupta, in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case moved a curative plea in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. He has also sought a stay on the execution of the black warrant issued by […]