HC says hang all Nirbhaya convicts together: Case chronology
4 years, 11 months ago

HC says hang all Nirbhaya convicts together: Case chronology

India Today  

Following is the chronology of events in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case in which a Delhi court on Friday postponed the execution of their black warrants till further order. - Feb, 2019: Victim's parents move Delhi court for issuance of death warrants of the four convicts - Dec 10, 2019: Akshay moves plea in SC seeking review of his death penalty. - Delhi govt seeks death warrants for execution of death sentence to the 4 convicts - Delhi court directs Tihar authorities to issue notice to convicts to avail their remaining legal remedies. - Jan 28: SC hears arguments, reserves verdict - Jan 29: Convict Akshya Kumar approaches SC with curative petition - SC rejects plea of Mukesh challenging rejection of his mercy plea. - Feb 5: HC dismisses Centre plea against trial court order; says all 4 convicts have to be hanged together.

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Kerala HC acquits second accused in rape and murder of woman and daughter in Kumily
6 days, 16 hours ago

Kerala HC acquits second accused in rape and murder of woman and daughter in Kumily

The Hindu  

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday acquitted Jomon of Kumily, the second accused in a case relating to the rape and murder of a woman and her daughter in 2007, after setting aside the Thodupuzha Session’s Court’s verdict awarding him death sentence in the case. The High Court had in 2018 confirmed the capital punishment imposed …

Periya twin murder: Kerala HC suspends sentence of four convicts
1 week, 1 day ago

Periya twin murder: Kerala HC suspends sentence of four convicts

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday suspended the sentence of four accused, including a former CPI MLA, who was sentenced to five years imprisonment in connection with the murder of two Youth Congress workers in Periya, a town in Kasaragod district five years ago. A bench of Justices P B Suresh Kumar and Jobin Sebastian put on hold the …

IIT-BHU gang rape: Third accused granted bail after 11 months in jail
1 month, 1 week ago

IIT-BHU gang rape: Third accused granted bail after 11 months in jail

Hindustan Times  

The Allahabad high court has granted bail to Saksham Patel, the third accused in the 2023 gang rape of an Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University student. Two other accused, Kunal Pandey and Abhishek Chauhan, were granted bail earlier. Justice Karunesh Singh Pawar, while allowing Patel’s bail application, noted, “Considering the submissions made, the record, and the fact that Patel …

Four sentenced to death in 2014 caste-related murders in TN's Udappankulam
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Four sentenced to death in 2014 caste-related murders in TN's Udappankulam

New Indian Express  

TIRUNELVELI: Four persons were sentenced to death, while seven others were awarded multiple life imprisonments in connection with the murders of three SC persons in Udappankulam village near Thiruvengadam in 2014. According to prosecution, 25 persons from a caste Hindu community were accused of murdering 3 scheduled caste men — Kaliraj, Venugopal and Murugan — when they were headed towards …

Nithari Killings: Should Surendra Koli's Acquittal Be Reversed? Supreme Court Agrees To Hear CBI's Plea
5 months ago

Nithari Killings: Should Surendra Koli's Acquittal Be Reversed? Supreme Court Agrees To Hear CBI's Plea

ABP News  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a fresh petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation challenging the Allahabad High Court's verdict that acquitted Surendra Koli in the sensational 2006 Nithari serial killings case. In May, the Supreme Court also agreed to hear another plea filed by the father of one of the victims challenging the high court's …

Nithari killings: SC agrees to hear CBI's plea against Allahabad HC order acquitting Surendra Koli
5 months ago

Nithari killings: SC agrees to hear CBI's plea against Allahabad HC order acquitting Surendra Koli

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a fresh plea filed by the CBI challenging the Allahabad High Court's verdict that acquitted Surendra Koli in the sensational 2006 Nithari serial killings case. The apex court had in May agreed to hear a plea filed by the father of one of the victims challenging the High Court's verdict acquitting Koli …

Rape-cum-murder case: SC stays execution of death sentence awarded to convict
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Rape-cum-murder case: SC stays execution of death sentence awarded to convict

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of the death sentence awarded to a man convicted for raping and murdering a 30-year-old law student in Kerala in 2016. A bench headed by Justice B R Gavai passed the order while hearing the convict's plea challenging the Kerala High Court's May 20 verdict that upheld his conviction and confirmed …

Soumya Vishwanathan murder case: Supreme Court seeks reply of convicts on Delhi Police’s pleas against bail
6 months, 1 week ago

Soumya Vishwanathan murder case: Supreme Court seeks reply of convicts on Delhi Police’s pleas against bail

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on July 8 agreed to examine the pleas filed by Delhi Police challenging the high court's order granting bail to four convicts, who were sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder case of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan. A bench of Justices Bela M. Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma issued notice on the four pleas filed by Delhi …

Kerala HC upholds death sentence in 2016 rape and murder of law student
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Kerala HC upholds death sentence in 2016 rape and murder of law student

Hindustan Times  

The Kerala high court on Monday upheld the death sentence given by a trial court to Muhammed Ameer ul-Islam, the lone convict in the 2016 rape and murder of a 30-year-old law student in Ernakulam district of the state. Kerala HC upholds death sentence in 2016 rape and murder of law student The accused, then 22 years old and a …

Nithari Killings: SC Agrees to Hear Plea of Victim's Father Against Acquittal of Surendra Koli
8 months, 1 week ago

Nithari Killings: SC Agrees to Hear Plea of Victim's Father Against Acquittal of Surendra Koli

News 18  

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea challenging Allahabad High Court’s order acquitting Surendra Koli in the 2006 Nithari serial killings case. On October 16, the high court pronounced verdicts on several appeals filed by Koli and Pandher, who were awarded the death penalty by the trial court. Reversing the death sentence given to Koli in 12 cases …

Chandrasekharan murder case: Kerala HC upholds conviction of 12 accused
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Chandrasekharan murder case: Kerala HC upholds conviction of 12 accused

Hindustan Times  

The Kerala high court on Monday upheld the conviction of 12 accused, including local Communist Party of India leaders, and set aside the acquittal of two others by a trial court in the case of the murder of TP Chandrasekharan, founder of Revolutionary Marxist Party, by a group of assailants in May 2012. Of the 12 accused convicted by the …

Tihar murder: 6 accused to be in Delhi Police custody till May 15
1 year, 8 months ago

Tihar murder: 6 accused to be in Delhi Police custody till May 15

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi The matter pertains to gangster Tillu Tajpuria’s brutal premeditated killing in the high-security Tihar Jail on May 2 by members of a rival gang. A Delhi court on Friday extended till May 15 the police custody of six people accused of killing jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuria. Delhi Police had sought three days’ extension of custody of the six …

Will add murder charge in Sultanpuri accident case, Delhi police tell court
1 year, 11 months ago

Will add murder charge in Sultanpuri accident case, Delhi police tell court

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi Police on Monday informed a city court that they are invoking murder charges against the accused involved in the January 1 Sultanpuri accident, in which a 20-year-old woman was dragged on the underside of a car for nearly three hours on a stretch of over 14 kilometres. Special public prosecutor Atul Srivastava, appearing on behalf of the police, …

DC Edit | Rajiv killers’ release: Govt plea raises key questions
2 years, 1 month ago

DC Edit | Rajiv killers’ release: Govt plea raises key questions

Deccan Chronicle  

The Union government moving the Supreme Court seeking a review of its November 11 order releasing all six remaining convicts undergoing life imprisonment for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is sure to spark serious discussions on certain constitutional and administrative topics. The court also cited the good character of the convicts during their long duration of their …

Govt may seek review after three Chhawla rape accused acquitted
2 years, 2 months ago

Govt may seek review after three Chhawla rape accused acquitted

Hindustan Times  

Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Tuesday that he spoke to Union law minister Kiren Rijiju and assured justice for a 19-year-old rape victim who hailed from the state, a day after the Supreme Court acquitted three men sentenced to death for her 2012 gang rape and murder. “I have spoken to advocate Charu Khanna, who is handling …

As Ashok Gehlot Nirbhaya case remark sparks outrage, aide cites ‘data’
2 years, 5 months ago

As Ashok Gehlot Nirbhaya case remark sparks outrage, aide cites ‘data’

Hindustan Times  

After Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot’s remark on death penalties and rape cases - while speaking of the December 16, 2012 gangrape case - drew huge criticism, his aide on Sunday shared data to back up the statement. Alleging that Gehlot’s comment was “distorted” by the “BJP IT cell”, Shashikant Sharma, OSD to the chief minister, cited a report to …

Shakti Mills gang rape case: Five reasons Bombay HC commuted death sentence
3 years, 1 month ago

Shakti Mills gang rape case: Five reasons Bombay HC commuted death sentence

India Today  

On Thursday, the Bombay High Court observed that the three convicts in the Shakti Mills rape case did not deserve any leniency for the heinous acts they had committed. In its 108-page detailed order, the High Court interpreted Section 376E of the Indian Penal Code, the procedure of law to be followed by a constitutional court and assimilation of a …

Accused Convicted For Separate Offence Arising Out Of Different Transaction In Separate Trials -Will the Sentences Run Concurrently? : SC To Decide
3 years, 1 month ago

Accused Convicted For Separate Offence Arising Out Of Different Transaction In Separate Trials -Will the Sentences Run Concurrently? : SC To Decide

Live Law  

A Bench of Justices M.R.Shah and B.V.Nagaratha will consider the question whether in case of an accused there are separate offences and not arising out of the same transaction, whether the sentences imposed in both cases will run consequently or concurrently. The question arises in a case- Mohd Zahid v State- in appeal from impugned judgement of the Delhi High …

Kalluvathukkal Hooch Tragedy Case: Supreme Court Grants Bail To Two Convicts
3 years, 3 months ago

Kalluvathukkal Hooch Tragedy Case: Supreme Court Grants Bail To Two Convicts

Live Law  

The Supreme Court granted bail to Vinod Kumar and Manikantan, who were serving their sentence following their conviction in Kalluvathukkal Hooch Tragedy case that killed over 30 people in the year 2000.In 2011, the Court had dismissed the appeals filed by the convicts in this case. Two months ago, their wives approached the Apex Court seeking their premature release in …

Sister Abhaya Murder Case : Kerala High Court Seeks State's Response On Plea Challenging Parole Granted To Convicts
3 years, 6 months ago

Sister Abhaya Murder Case : Kerala High Court Seeks State's Response On Plea Challenging Parole Granted To Convicts

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court on Monday asked the State to file a statement while hearing the petition seeking immediate withdrawal of parole granted to the convicts in the Sister Abhaya murder case. The Division Bench of Justices K. Vinod Chandran and Ziyad Rahman A.A while issuing notice, sought the response of the concerned authorities in the matter. The writ petition …

Death-row convict Shabnam's boyfriend Salim could be 1st to be hanged in Agra since 1984
3 years, 10 months ago

Death-row convict Shabnam's boyfriend Salim could be 1st to be hanged in Agra since 1984

India Today  

The Agra district has a unique distinction of being the only district in the division where there are two jails and both of them have hanging houses. Established in 1741, the Agra District Jail has witnessed 35 hangings since Independence, the first one taking place in 1951. Hanging apparatus in shambles Prison Superintendent Shashikant Mishra told IndiaToday.in that the hanging …

Delhi HC Asks Prisons Dept to Prepare Updated List of Cases Pending Against Jagtar Singh Hawara
4 years, 3 months ago

Delhi HC Asks Prisons Dept to Prepare Updated List of Cases Pending Against Jagtar Singh Hawara

News 18  

The Delhi High Court Friday asked the Department of Prisons to prepare an updated list of cases pending against Jagtar Singh Hawara, undergoing life sentence for conspiring to assassinate former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. Delhi government standing counsel Rahul Mehra, representing the Department of Prisons, submitted before Justice A J Bhambhani that as per the information available with the …

High Court acquits main accused in T.N. honour killing, commutes death sentence of five others
4 years, 6 months ago

High Court acquits main accused in T.N. honour killing, commutes death sentence of five others

The Hindu  

A two-member Bench of the Madras High Court on June 22 acquitted the prime accused B. Chinnasamy in the case of the brutal honour killing of a Dalit youth, V. Shankar, at Udumalpet town in Tamil Nadu on March 13, 2016, for marrying his daughter Kausalya. The High Court also set aside the death sentences of the five others and …

[Death Sentence To Acquittal] Madras HC Acquits Prime Accused Chinnasamy in 2016 Udumalpet Honour Killing Case: [Read Judgment]
4 years, 6 months ago

[Death Sentence To Acquittal] Madras HC Acquits Prime Accused Chinnasamy in 2016 Udumalpet Honour Killing Case: [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Madras High Court has set aside the order of conviction passed by the Principal District and Sessions Court, Tiruppur, against B. Chinnasamy, the prime accused in the 2016 'Udumalpet' Shankar murder case, and has ordered that he be released from custody forthwith. Finding Chinnasamy guilty of criminal conspiracy and Murder, and other relevant provisions of the Scheduled Castes and …

Citing Recent Delhi HC Order, Trial Court Grants Bail To Delhi Riots Accused In All Other FIRs Against Him [Read Order]
4 years, 7 months ago

Citing Recent Delhi HC Order, Trial Court Grants Bail To Delhi Riots Accused In All Other FIRs Against Him [Read Order]

Live Law  

Citing the order passed by Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani of the Delhi High Court on 29/05/20, the trial court in Delhi has granted bail to Delhi Riots accused Firoz Khan in all other FIRs registered against him. In that May 29 order, the Delhi High Court had granted bail to Faizal Khan in of the FIRs against him by noting …

Nirbhaya convicts to Ajmal Kasab: This is what their last wish was before they were hanged
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya convicts to Ajmal Kasab: This is what their last wish was before they were hanged

New Indian Express  

CONVICT NAME: Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh | CRIME: Rape and Murder of 23-year-old medical student | LAST WISH/LAST MOMENTS: On the day of the hanging all the convicts were already awake as the 'fear to be hanged' did not allow them to sleep. When the jail authorities asked them to finish their routine work and …

Crime and punishment: The Hindu Editorial on hanging of Nirbhaya case convicts
4 years, 9 months ago

Crime and punishment: The Hindu Editorial on hanging of Nirbhaya case convicts

The Hindu  

The pre-dawn hangings of four men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman may have brought a semblance of closure to her parents, prompting her mother, to say, “Women will now feel safe.” On December 16, 2012, the woman was brutally raped in an empty moving bus in Delhi and she died after battling for her …

Nirbhaya case :Human Rights activists "cry foul" after rapists are executed
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya case :Human Rights activists "cry foul" after rapists are executed

Op India  

Following the execution of the convicts involved in the brutal gangrape and murder of 23-year-old physiotherapy student in 2012 who was named “Nirbhaya” by the media, several self-proclaimed human rights activists assumed moral high ground and dubbed the death penalty handed out to the convicts as an act of revenge. #Nirbhaya https://t.co/tWHlKA2Zh9 — Mohd Mojahid March 20, 2020 Citing the …

Nirbhaya gets justice, convicts executed despite lawyer AP Singh's delay tactics
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya gets justice, convicts executed despite lawyer AP Singh's delay tactics

Op India  

After a long wait of 7 years, Nirbhaya finally got justice. Delhi: Ambulance carrying bodies of 2012 Delhi gangrape case convicts leave from Tihar Jail complex for Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital pic.twitter.com/usDUxSSTI0 — ANI March 20, 2020 High Court Hearing On Thursday night, the Delhi High Court began hearing a plea against the Trial Court’s refusal to stay the execution …

'Justice finally granted': 2012 Delhi gangrape victim's parents hail hanging of four convicts, say historic day for all women
4 years, 9 months ago

'Justice finally granted': 2012 Delhi gangrape victim's parents hail hanging of four convicts, say historic day for all women

Firstpost  

The victim’s father, Badrinath Singh hailed the hanging saying that their daughter had finally got the justice, seven years after she was brutalised in a moving bus in Delhi. After the hanging of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case on Friday, the victim’s mother Asha Devi dedicated the day to the daughters of …

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Seven years later, all four death row convicts executed for crime that shook nation
4 years, 9 months ago

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Seven years later, all four death row convicts executed for crime that shook nation

Firstpost  

The hanging was carried out as per schedule in Delhi’s Tihar jail after a three-judge Supreme Court bench rejected the final plea by the convicts’ lawyer AP Singh to stay their execution in a late-night hearing. All four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder of a young physiotherapy student were hanged in the National Capital’s high-security …

Justice delayed but not denied, says Nirbhaya’s mother
4 years, 9 months ago

Justice delayed but not denied, says Nirbhaya’s mother

The Hindu  

Justice was delayed but not denied, said Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi, after four of her daughter’s rapists and killers were hanged at Tihar Jail in Delhi early on March 20. The way the courts acted proactively in last 24 hours, in the dismissal of all petitions filed by the convicts, has restored my faith in the system that was shaken …

Justice delayed but not denied, says Nirbhaya’s mother after hanging of 4 convicts
4 years, 9 months ago

Justice delayed but not denied, says Nirbhaya’s mother after hanging of 4 convicts

Live Mint  

After the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case of Nirbhaya were hanged at Tihar Jail here, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi dedicated the day to the daughters of the country stating "justice delayed but not denied." The four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case were hanged to death at 5:30 a.m. in Delhi's Tihar …

All 4 Nirbhaya convicts hanged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail
4 years, 9 months ago

All 4 Nirbhaya convicts hanged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail

Live Mint  

The four men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a Delhi woman on December 16, 2012 were hanged in the darkness of pre-dawn on Friday, ending a horrific chapter in India's long history of sexual assault that had seared the nation's soul. Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh were executed at 5.30 am for …

Four Nirbhaya case convicts hanged to death in Tihar jail
4 years, 9 months ago

Four Nirbhaya case convicts hanged to death in Tihar jail

The Hindu  

Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Kumar, and Mukesh Kumar convicted for Nirbhaya’s gangrape and murder, were hanged to death in Delhi’s Tihar jail early on Friday morning. String of death warrants Having exhausted all their legal remedies, the four convicts went on pleading spree after the first death warrant was issued against them for January 22 at 7am inside Tihar …

Four Convicts Hanged To Death At Tihar Jail In Nirbhaya Case After Late Night Legal Battles [Read Timeline]
4 years, 9 months ago

Four Convicts Hanged To Death At Tihar Jail In Nirbhaya Case After Late Night Legal Battles [Read Timeline]

Live Law  

The execution of four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case - Mukesh Singh, Akshay Kumar Singh, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Kumar Gupta - was carried out at Tihar Jail, Delhi on Friday morning at 5. 30 AM.Though the convicts made late night attempts to stall the execution by filing a revision petition in the Delhi HC and …

Nirbhaya Case : SC Dismisses Final Plea Of Convicts To Stay Execution After Past Midnight Hearing [Read Order]
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya Case : SC Dismisses Final Plea Of Convicts To Stay Execution After Past Midnight Hearing [Read Order]

Live Law  

Hours before the scheduled execution, the convicts in the Nirbhaya case knocked the doors of the Supreme Court past midnight, hoping for a last minute judicial intervention to extend their lives.But the last ditch effort of the convicts met with no success, as the bench comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and A S Bopanna dismissed the plea, after a …

From bus to gallows: A timeline of events in Nirbhaya case
4 years, 9 months ago

From bus to gallows: A timeline of events in Nirbhaya case

New Indian Express  

On March 11, accused Ram Singh allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Tihar Jail. Ten days pursuant to that, a trial court convicted four others of 'grave offences', including gang-rape, unnatural offence and murder of the girl and attempt to murder her male friend. On September 13, the court awarded death penalty to all the four convicts. On May …

Nirbhaya case: From December 16, 2012 to March 20, 2020 | A timeline
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya case: From December 16, 2012 to March 20, 2020 | A timeline

India Today  

The death sentences handed out to four men, namely Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, and Pawan Gupta were executed at 5:30 am on Friday morning at Delhi's Tihar jail. All of these four men, along with two others, were convicted for the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus on the night of December 16, …

India hangs four men over 2012 Delhi bus gang rape and murder
4 years, 9 months ago

India hangs four men over 2012 Delhi bus gang rape and murder

Al Jazeera  

The four men, sentenced to death in 2013, have been executed at Tihar jail after their clemency pleas were rejected. India has executed four men for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion. The four were hanged before dawn on Friday at Tihar jail in …

Nirbhaya convicts hanged: How the executions took place
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya convicts hanged: How the executions took place

India Today  

Delhi's Tihar jail has gone into lockdown mode ahead of the execution of the death sentences of four men convicted for the brutal gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in 2012. 5:20 am -> With a cotton cloth on their faces and their hands tied behind their backs, the four men were marched to the area in the …

Nirbhaya case: Delhi High Court declines to stay execution of convicts
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya case: Delhi High Court declines to stay execution of convicts

Live Mint  

The four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case are set to be hanged early Friday morning with the Delhi High Court clearing the decks for their execution by dismissing their plea seeking a stay on it. While dismissing the plea, the bench said pending petitions of the convicts in various fora is untenable in law as a …

Nirbhaya convicts restless, in tears ahead of execution
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya convicts restless, in tears ahead of execution

The Hindu  

After all four convicts in Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case came to know about their hanging on Friday morning, they started sobbing and refused the evening tea on Thursday. The Tihar jail authorities held a meeting over preparations besides doing a final trial run. A Tihar jail officer said that after the convicts were informed that the Delhi court …

Breaking: Delhi HC Dismisses Late Night Plea By Nirbhaya Convicts To Stay Execution
4 years, 9 months ago

Breaking: Delhi HC Dismisses Late Night Plea By Nirbhaya Convicts To Stay Execution

Live Law  

After a special hearing which started around 10 PM, the Delhi HC on Thursday dismissed the late night petition filed by the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case seeking stay of execution scheduled to take place tomorrow at 5.30 AM. The Court was considering the revision petition filed by Nirbhaya case convicts against the order of Additional Sessions …

Nirbhaya Will Finally Get Peace: Asha Devi on Convicts’ Hanging
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya Will Finally Get Peace: Asha Devi on Convicts’ Hanging

The Quint  

A guard of not less than 10 constables, warders and two head constables, head warders or an equal number from the prison armed guard, will also be present, it states. The manual specifies that a medical officer prepares a report four days ahead of the date of execution, mentioning the length of the drop to be given to the prisoner …

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Supreme Court refuses to entertain Mukesh Singh's plea claiming he wasn't in Delhi at time of crime
4 years, 9 months ago

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Supreme Court refuses to entertain Mukesh Singh's plea claiming he wasn't in Delhi at time of crime

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court refused to entertain the plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four death-row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, challenging the Delhi High Court order which rejected his claim that he was not in the city at the time of crime New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday refused to entertain the plea of Mukesh …

[Breaking] Nirbhaya Case : Delhi Court Rejects Fresh Plea By Convicts To Stay Execution Of Death Sentence
4 years, 9 months ago

[Breaking] Nirbhaya Case : Delhi Court Rejects Fresh Plea By Convicts To Stay Execution Of Death Sentence

Live Law  

A Delhi Court on Thursday dismissed the plea moved by Nirbhaya case convicts for staying their execution scheduled to take place tomorrow at 5. "No valid ground has been brought to my notice to justify the stay of execution of death warrants", the Court said. Therefore, I do not find any plausible reasons to suspend the execution of death sentence …

Tihar gets ready to execute Nirbhaya case convicts
4 years, 9 months ago

Tihar gets ready to execute Nirbhaya case convicts

India Today  

Seven years after the execution of Afzal Guru, Tihar Jail on Thursday prepared the ground to hang the four men convicted in the Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case after several dummy runs and officials brushing up on details specified in the jail manual. The execution, specifies the Delhi Prison Rules 2018, will take place in the presence of the superintendent, deputy superintendent, …

How a hanging takes place at an Indian jail
4 years, 9 months ago

How a hanging takes place at an Indian jail

India Today  

Four men convicted of the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student in 2012 were hanged at 5:30 am on Friday morning as per the most recent death 'black' warrant issued in their name. Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, and Pawan Gupta have been on death row since 2013 when a fast track court sentenced them to death, holding …

Nirbhaya rapists to hang at 5.30 am tomorrow, plea for stay dismissed
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya rapists to hang at 5.30 am tomorrow, plea for stay dismissed

India Today  

A Delhi court today dismissed a plea seeking a stay on the execution of Nirbhaya's rapists, and they will all be hanged tomorrow at 5.30 am. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has dismissed a plea from one of the convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, challenging the rejection of his second mercy petition by the President of India. The top court has also …

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