Tag: Nirbhaya Rape Case

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday asked the Tihar Jail authorities to file a status report on July 19, the next date of hearing, on the four convicts of the December 16, 2012 gang rape case. Asking the Tihar Jail superintendent to appear in person along with report, the court sought details on various […]

New Delhi: After the Union Home Ministry and the Delhi government recommended the President reject the mercy petition filed by one of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya rape and murder case, the victim’s mother has also written to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding rejection of mercy petition. In a plea forwarded through the Harijan […]

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: President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday rejected the mercy petition of 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case convict Mukesh Singh, officials said. President’s decision came a day after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday night sent Mukesh’s mercy petition to him recommending its rejection, hours after the plea was received from […]

New Delhi: The judge who issued a death warrant against the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case has been transferred. Additional Session Judge Satish Kumar Arora has been transferred to the Supreme Court as Additional Registrar on deputation basis for one year. Arora before his transfer was also hearing the […]

New Delhi: The advocate appearing for two of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case on Friday moved a Delhi court alleging that the Tihar jail authorities are delaying in handing over certain documents. Advocate A P Singh moved an application alleging that the jail authorities are yet […]

New Delhi: One of the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case moved the Supreme Court seeking urgent hearing on his plea against the dismissal of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind. Mukesh Kumar Singh (32) submitted the plea last week. His mercy plea was dismissed by the President […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court Monday dismissed a plea filed by the father of one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, challenging the court’s order by which it had rejected his complaint questioning the credibility of the sole witness in the case. Judge A K Jain […]

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: 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: A Delhi court on Monday dismissed an application seeking stay on execution of death-row convicts in Nirbhaya rape and murder case. The four convicts –Akshay Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Mukesh Kumar — are scheduled to be hanged at 6 a.m. on March 3. After the pronouncement of order, counsel for […]

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: 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 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 […]