Tag: Nirbhaya Case Update

New Delhi: Pawan Jallad, a hangman from the Meerut Prison, reported to the Tihar Jail administration on Thursday, two days ahead of the Nirbhaya case convicts’ scheduled execution, officials said. They said Pawan, a third-generation hangman, will be staying on the jail premises and check the strength of rope and other related things on Friday. […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday postponed the execution of death warrants of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case till further order. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana passed the order on plea by the convicts seeking a stay on their execution on February 1. Earlier today, the Supreme Court dismissed […]

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) along with Tihar Jail authorities on Saturday moved the Delhi High Court challenging the trial court order putting a stay on the death warrants issued against the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. The MHA plea states that the said four […]

New Delhi: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Saturday informed the Delhi High Court that the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case “can be hanged separately”. Mehta while arguing before Justice Suresh Kumar Kait said, “Once a person is aware that his fate is death penalty, any delay in execution […]

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 […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday issued notice to the Tihar Central Jail authorities on a petition that sought a stay on the execution of four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case. The four convicts moved the application to seek a stay on their hanging scheduled for March 3 on the […]

New Delhi: Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, moved a plea in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking restoration of all his legal remedies, alleging that his lawyers had misled him. The plea, filed through advocate M L Sharma, sought a CBI probe into alleged […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday refused to entertain the plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four death-row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, seeking restoration of legal remedies alleging that his earlier counsel misled and forced him to sign the papers. A bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and M R […]