Tag: Nirbhaya Case

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear on February 11 the Centre’s plea challenging the Delhi High Court’s verdict that had dismissed its petition against the stay on the execution of the four Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case convicts. A bench headed by Justice R Bhanumathi did not heed to […]

New Delhi: The Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Friday urged the Supreme Court to lay down a law in the execution of death sentence, as the convicts in the Nirbhaya case were making a mockery of the process. The Supreme Court posted the Centre’s plea to February 11 when the one-week time given by the […]

New Delhi: Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi Wednesday protested outside a trial court premises here over the delay in hanging of the four convicts in the gang rape and murder case of her daughter. Her protests come right after the trial court offered Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the case, saying a […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court deferred the hearing on Centre’s plea seeking separate execution of four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case to Friday and asked the convicts to file their counter replies by then. A bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and A S Bopanna appointed senior advocate Anjana Prakash […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order for Friday on Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case convict Vinay Sharma’s plea challenging the rejection of his mercy petition by the president. Sharma is one of the four convicts on death row in the 2012 case. A bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday appointed advocate Ravi Qazi to represent Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana appointed Qazi after Gupta refused to take a lawyer offered by DLSA as legal aid. The court had on Wednesday […]

New Delhi: One of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case claimed in the Supreme Court on Thursday that while rejecting his mercy plea the President did not consider his mental illness following torture in jail, an allegation denied by the Centre saying “he is fit and has sound […]

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: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the curative petition filed by Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. A five-judge bench headed by Justice N V Ramana, which considered the curative plea in-chamber, also rejected Pawan’s application seeking stay on the execution of […]

New Delhi: A court here on Monday again deferred the execution of the four convicts in Nirbhaya rape and murder case, slated for Tuesday, till further orders. “Despite stiff resistance from the victim’s side, I am of the opinion that any condemned convict must not meet his Creator with a grievance in his bosom that […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday declined to entertain a plea seeking directions to the NHRC to intervene and enquire into the mental and physical state of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar said […]

New Delhi: The Delhi government on Wednesday moved a city court seeking a fresh date for execution of the death-row convicts in Nirbhaya rape and murder case. The move came a few hours after President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the plea for pardon moved by one of the death-row convicts, Pawan. He was the only […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court said on Thursday it may examine the legal issues emerging from the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, where four convicts are on death row, whether there is a possibility to hang the convicts separately. A bench headed by Justice R. Banumathi and comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and A.S. Bopanna said […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday pulled up the lawyer representing the death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case for not adhering to prerequisite technicalities before filing the petition and later, dismissed the plea. Advocate A.P. Singh moved the High Court challenging the trial court’s order which had declined to […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Justice delivered. It took over seven years but finally, Nirbhaya, the brave daughter of the country got justice. All the four convicts- Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31), were hanged till death at Tihar Jail in Delhi today at 5:30 AM. Following the execution of […]