Nirbhaya rapists get no mercy, to hang on February 1
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya rapists get no mercy, to hang on February 1

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday rejected the mercy petition of Mukesh Kumar Singh, one of the four men facing the gallows in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case following which a sessions court issued fresh death warrants for February 1, 6 am against the four convicts. Had the death warrant not been issued, the convicts would not have initiated using their legal remedies.” The court also passed fresh directions on the application moved by Delhi’s Tihar jail authorities seeking issuance of fresh death warrants aga-inst the four convicts — Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Kumar Singh and Pawan Gupta. The mercy petition was against the sessions court’s death warrants against the execution of the four convicts on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar Jail. In wake of rejection of Mukesh’s mercy petition by the President, the sessions court on Friday issued fresh death warrants against all the four convicts in the seven-year-old case.

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'Sensitive Matter': SC Grants 4 More Weeks To Centre In Balwant Singh's Mercy Petition
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Sensitive Matter': SC Grants 4 More Weeks To Centre In Balwant Singh's Mercy Petition

ABP News  

The Supreme Court on Monday granted four more weeks to the Centre to respond to the petition filed by Balwant Singh Rajoana, a Babbar Khalsa terrorist, seeking commutation of the death sentence awarded to him in the Punjab CM Beant Singh assassination case. In the last hearing on November 18, the top court initially passed an oral order directing that …

'Sensitive Matter' : Union Seeks More Time On Balwant Singh's Mercy Petition; Supreme Court Adjourns Hearing By 4 Weeks
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Sensitive Matter' : Union Seeks More Time On Balwant Singh's Mercy Petition; Supreme Court Adjourns Hearing By 4 Weeks

Live Law  

Specifically on Rohatgi's arguments on national security, Counsel for Punjab responded: "An affidavit was filed by the Union, wherein a national threat was stated in the affidavit that there is national threat on release of this person." However, while confirming the conviction of a co-accused Jagtar Singh Hawara, the High Court commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. However, on …

Supreme Court Requests President To Decide Death Row Convict Balwant Singh's Mercy Petition In 2 Weeks
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Requests President To Decide Death Row Convict Balwant Singh's Mercy Petition In 2 Weeks

Live Law  

Specifically on Rohatgi's arguments on national security, Counsel for Punjab responded: "An affidavit was filed by the Union, wherein a national threat was stated in the affidavit that there is national threat on release of this person." However, while confirming the conviction of a co-accused Jagtar Singh Hawara, the High Court commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. However, on …

Expedite Beant Singh's killer's mercy plea: Supreme Court to President's Office
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Expedite Beant Singh's killer's mercy plea: Supreme Court to President's Office

India Today  

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered President Droupadi Murmu's office to take a decision on the mercy petition of the death-row prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana within two weeks. The court said that it would consider the mercy petition of Rajoana if the President's office does not make a decision on it. Meanwhile, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told a bench led …

President Murmu rejects mercy plea of Pak terrorist convicted in Red Fort attack case
6 months, 4 weeks ago

President Murmu rejects mercy plea of Pak terrorist convicted in Red Fort attack case

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The mercy petition of Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Arif alias Ashfaq convicted in the nearly 24-year-old Red Fort attack case has been rejected by President Droupadi Murmu, officials said on Wednesday.This is the second mercy plea rejected by the President after assuming office on July 25, 2022. The Supreme Court, while upholding the death sentence, noted that there were …

Fake List of Politicians and Actors Linked to Yakub Memon's Mercy Petition
1 year, 5 months ago

Fake List of Politicians and Actors Linked to Yakub Memon's Mercy Petition

The Quint  

More information about Memon's petitions: According to a report shared by The Caravan, there were six stages of litigation for Memon's case. These included the original appeal, a review petition, a second review petition, a curative petition, a writ petition challenging the warrant of execution of death sentence and proceedings to re-determine this writ petition. The Terrorist and Disruptive Activities …

President Murmu rejects mercy plea of convict for raping & killing 4-year-old girl in Maharashtra
1 year, 8 months ago

President Murmu rejects mercy plea of convict for raping & killing 4-year-old girl in Maharashtra

India TV News  

President Droupadi Murmu has dismissed the mercy petition of a man convicted for raping and killing a four-year-old girl in Maharashtra in 2008. According to Rashtrapati Bhavan, this was the first mercy petition rejected by Murmu after she assumed office as the 15th President of India on July 25, 2022. While upholding the death penalty awarded to the convict, 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 …

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 …

Breaking: SC Dismisses New Petitions Filed By Nirbhaya Convicts Mukesh And Akshay
4 years, 9 months ago

Breaking: SC Dismisses New Petitions Filed By Nirbhaya Convicts Mukesh And Akshay

Live Law  

One day before the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder convicts are to be executed, two of the convicts, Mukesh and Akshay, approached the Supreme Court in a last ditch effort to defer the same. He also refered to Ram Singh's death certificate, Mukesh's medical reports and stated that the same along with his x-ray ultrasound reports were not placed before …

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 …

Lawyers of Nirbhaya’s rapists have been using the loopholes in the law to defeat the purpose of law. Read How
4 years, 10 months ago

Lawyers of Nirbhaya’s rapists have been using the loopholes in the law to defeat the purpose of law. Read How

Op India  

The 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who is known as “Nirbhaya” was gang-raped and savagely assaulted by six men on the night of December 16, 2012 in a moving bus in South Delhi. The court said that The Delhi Government moved the trial court for issuance of death warrant two years after the Supreme Court in 2017 had dismissed the review petition …

Nirbhaya case convicts to be hanged on March 20
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya case convicts to be hanged on March 20

Op India  

A Delhi court on Thursday issued a fresh death warrant to all four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. They are to be hanged at 5.30 am on March 20, 2020 pic.twitter.com/MAOx5rVVGw — ANI March 5, 2020 Reportedly, the order by a Delhi court comes after President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected the mercy petition of Pawan …

2012 Delhi gang rape case: Tihar jail authorities move court seeking fresh date for hanging; matter to be heard at 2 pm
4 years, 10 months ago

2012 Delhi gang rape case: Tihar jail authorities move court seeking fresh date for hanging; matter to be heard at 2 pm

Firstpost  

Tihar Jail authorities on Wednesday moved a city court seeking a fresh date for the execution of four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case. Shortly after President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupt a, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, Tihar Jail authorities on Wednesday …

Delhi govt moves court seeking fresh date for execution of 4 Nirbhaya case convicts
4 years, 10 months ago

Delhi govt moves court seeking fresh date for execution of 4 Nirbhaya case convicts

India TV News  

The Delhi government on Wednesday moved a city court seeking fresh date for the execution of four Nirbhaya case convicts. President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four men facing the gallows in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, a Home Ministry official said earlier in the day. The trial …

President rejects 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Pawan Gupta’s mercy petition; all legal remedies available to perpetrators exhausted
4 years, 10 months ago

President rejects 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Pawan Gupta’s mercy petition; all legal remedies available to perpetrators exhausted

Firstpost  

President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four men facing the gallows in the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four men facing the gallows in the 2012 Delhi gang rape and …

Nirbhaya case: Delhi govt recommends rejecting mercy plea of convict Pawan Gupta
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya case: Delhi govt recommends rejecting mercy plea of convict Pawan Gupta

India TV News  

Delhi government on Monday recommended rejecting the mercy petition of one of death row convicts -- Pawan Gupta, in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. "The Delhi government has recommended rejecting mercy petition of Pawan Gupta. A Delhi court on Monday deferred till further order the hanging of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape …

No hanging for Nirbhaya convicts on March 3, court stays execution for now
4 years, 10 months ago

No hanging for Nirbhaya convicts on March 3, court stays execution for now

India TV News  

Convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case will not be hanged tomorrow. The convicts -- Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Kumar Singh, and Pawan Gupta -- were scheduled to be hanged on March 3 at 6 AM. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana said the death sentence cannot be executed pending disposal of mercy petition of convict Pawan Gupta. It …

[Breaking] Nirbhaya Case : Delhi Court Stays Execution Of All Convicts Until Further Orders As Pawan Files Mercy Petition [Read Order]
4 years, 10 months ago

[Breaking] Nirbhaya Case : Delhi Court Stays Execution Of All Convicts Until Further Orders As Pawan Files Mercy Petition [Read Order]

Live Law  

The last moment mercy petition filed by Nirbhaya case convict Pawan Kumar Gupta has resulted in the postponement of the execution of death sentences of all convicts in the Nirbhaya case until further orders, which was otherwise scheduled to take place tomorrow at 6 AM.The new development of Pawan's mercy petition persuaded Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana of Patiala House …

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Delhi court reserves order on convict Pawan Gupta's petition seeking stay on execution
4 years, 10 months ago

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Delhi court reserves order on convict Pawan Gupta's petition seeking stay on execution

Firstpost  

The four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case —Vinay Sharma, Akshay Singh Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh — are scheduled to be hanged at 6 am on 3 March New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday reserved its order on a petition filed by Pawan Gupta, a death row convict in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and …

Nirbhaya case: Supreme Court dismisses curative plea of convict Pawan Gupta
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya case: Supreme Court dismisses curative plea of convict Pawan Gupta

India TV News  

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 NV Ramana, which considered the curative plea in-chamber, also rejected Pawan's application seeking stay on the execution of death sentence which is scheduled for Tuesday. The …

Nirbhaya Case: Convicts Move Plea Seeking Stay on Death Warrant
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya Case: Convicts Move Plea Seeking Stay on Death Warrant

Live Law  

Delhi court asks Tihar jail to file report on Nirbhaya convict's plea seeking stay on executionA Delhi court has directed Tihar authorities to file a report on a plea moved by one of the convicts Akshay Thakur seeking a stay on the execution of the death warrant.Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana, at Patiala House Court, has listed the matter for …

Nirbhaya Case: Convict Pawan Gupta files curative petition asking commutation of death sentence
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya Case: Convict Pawan Gupta files curative petition asking commutation of death sentence

India TV News  

Nirbhaya Case: Fourth convict in Nirbhaya gangrape case Pawan Gupta has filed a curative petition before Supreme Court of India. The four convicts -- Mukesh Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Akshay Kumar -- in the Nirbhaya case are yet to exhaust all legal remedies. Earlier, the top court dismissed separate pleas filed by Mukesh and Vinay against …

Nirbhaya Case: SC to Hear Centre’s Appeal Against HC Verdict
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya Case: SC to Hear Centre’s Appeal Against HC Verdict

The Quint  

The appeal filed by the Centre and the Delhi government came up for hearing before a bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and Navin Sinha which adjourned the matter for next week. The trial court on 17 February issued fresh date for execution of death warrants for 3 March at 6 am for the four convicts – Mukesh Kumar …

Nirbhaya gang rape case: Hanging on
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya gang rape case: Hanging on

The Hindu  

ON the afternoon of February 2, a Sunday, the Delhi High Court opened its gates unusually to facilitate the hearing of the criminal revision petitions filed by the Centre against the four death-row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case. Among the convicts, Pawan Gupta had not yet filed his curative petition and mercy petition after the dismissal of his …

[Breaking] Nirbhaya Case : Delhi Court Issues Fresh Death Warrants For Hanging Of 4 Convicts On March 3 At 6 AM
4 years, 10 months ago

[Breaking] Nirbhaya Case : Delhi Court Issues Fresh Death Warrants For Hanging Of 4 Convicts On March 3 At 6 AM

Live Law  

A Delhi Court on Monday issued fresh death warrants for the hanging of four convicts - Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Akshay Singh- in the Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case on March 3 at 6 AM.Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana of Patiala House Courts, Delhi passed the order on a plea moved by Tihar Jail authorities under Section 413 of …

Nirbhaya Case : SC Dismisses Convict Vinay Sharma's Challenge Against Mercy Rejection
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya Case : SC Dismisses Convict Vinay Sharma's Challenge Against Mercy Rejection

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the writ petition filed by Vinay Sharma, one of the four convicts awaiting execution of death penalty in the Nirbhaya case, against the President's order rejecting his petition seeking mercy under Article 72 of the Constitution of India. A bench comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and A S Bopanna had reserved orders on …

Nirbhaya Case : SC Reserves Order On Vinay Sharma's Challenge Against Rejection Of Mercy Plea By President
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya Case : SC Reserves Order On Vinay Sharma's Challenge Against Rejection Of Mercy Plea By President

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgment on the petition filed by Vinay Sharma, one among the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case, against the rejection of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind.A bench comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and A S Bopanna will pronounce verdict tomorrow at 2 PM.Advocate A P Singh, appearing …

Nirbhaya Convict Cites Mental Illness To Challenge Rejection Of Mercy Petition In SC
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya Convict Cites Mental Illness To Challenge Rejection Of Mercy Petition In SC

Live Law  

Vinay Sharma, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder case, on Tuesday filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court against the rejection of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath KovindSignificantly, today is the last day of the one week time granted by Delhi HC for the convicts to exhaust their legal remedies against …

Nirbhaya Case : SC Allows Centre To Move Trial Court For Fresh Death Warrants
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya Case : SC Allows Centre To Move Trial Court For Fresh Death Warrants

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case on the petition filed by the Union Government against the February 5 judgment of the Delhi High Court, which held that the convicts can only be executed together after they have exhausted their legal remedies.A bench comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and …

Nirbhaya Case : SC Adjourns Hearing Of Centre's Appeal Against Stay On Executions Till Feb 11 [Read Order]
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya Case : SC Adjourns Hearing Of Centre's Appeal Against Stay On Executions Till Feb 11 [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned till February 11 the hearing of Centre's plea challenging the Delhi High Court's refusal to set aside the trial court's stay on the execution of four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder case.A bench comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna noted that the High Court had given one week time for …

Nirbhaya Case: SC Agrees To Hear Tomorrow Centre's Appeal Against Delhi HC Order Refusing To Vacate Stay On Executions
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya Case: SC Agrees To Hear Tomorrow Centre's Appeal Against Delhi HC Order Refusing To Vacate Stay On Executions

Live Law  

Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear Centre's plea challenging the Delhi High Court's decision to not allow convicts of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case to be executed separately.ASG Natrajan mentioned the matter before a Three Judge Bench headed by Justice Ramana.ASG submitted that the convict Akshay's mercy has been rejected by the President yesterday. Supreme Court on …

[Breaking] Nirbhaya Case : Delhi HC Refuses To Set Aside Trial Court's Stay On Execution; Directs Convicts To Exercise Legal Remedies Within 7 Days [Read Judgment]
4 years, 11 months ago

[Breaking] Nirbhaya Case : Delhi HC Refuses To Set Aside Trial Court's Stay On Execution; Directs Convicts To Exercise Legal Remedies Within 7 Days [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

Observing that the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case cannot be executed separately, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed them to exhaust their remaining legal remedies within 7 days from today. Though the Court did not agree with the interpretation of the Trial Court that pendency of mercy petition of even one convict is ground to postpone the executions, …

Nirbhaya Case : Delhi HC To Pronounce Tomorrow Judgment On Centre's Challenge Against Stay On Executions
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya Case : Delhi HC To Pronounce Tomorrow Judgment On Centre's Challenge Against Stay On Executions

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court will pronounce judgment tomorrow on the revision petitions filed by Union Ministry of Home Affairs against the January 31 order of the Trial Court which stayed the executions of four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case until further orders.Justice Suresh Kumar Kait had reserved orders on the petitions after a special hearing held …

Nirbhaya case: A game of petitions
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya case: A game of petitions

India Today  

Pawan Jallad, a third generation hangman from Meerut prison, arrived in Delhi on January 29. On January 31, Delhi's Patiala court accepted the plea that Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Mukesh Singh could not be hanged as they are yet to exhaust their legal remedies and a mercy petition by Vinay was still pending with the president. Using …

Nirbhaya Case: Delhi HC To Hear On Sunday Centre's Plea Against Stay Of Convicts' Execution
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya Case: Delhi HC To Hear On Sunday Centre's Plea Against Stay Of Convicts' Execution

Live Law  

In an urgent sitting held on Saturday evening, the Delhi High Court issued notices to the four convicts of the Nirbhaya rape case, in a plea challenging the trial court order which had put a stay on their execution. This revision petition is moved by Ministry of Home Affairs, against the order dated 31/1/2020 wherein ASJ Dharmender Rana had stayed …

Delhi High Court to hear Tihar Jail's urgent plea challenging stay on Nirbhaya convicts hanging
4 years, 11 months ago

Delhi High Court to hear Tihar Jail's urgent plea challenging stay on Nirbhaya convicts hanging

India TV News  

Delhi High Court will hear Tihar Jail authority's plea today on the hanging of Nirbhaya gangrape case convicts. The jail authority has approached Delhi High Court challenging the trial court's order which had stayed the execution of the convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case. Earlier in the day, Akshay Thakur, one of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape …

[Breaking] Delhi Court Stays Hanging Of Four Convicts In Nirbhaya Case Until Further Orders
4 years, 11 months ago

[Breaking] Delhi Court Stays Hanging Of Four Convicts In Nirbhaya Case Until Further Orders

Live Law  

A Delhi Court on Friday stayed the hanging of four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case until further orders.Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana at Patiala House Court passed the order in the applications filed by the convicts to stay the execution of their death penalties scheduled on February 1 at 6 AM.On January 17, a Sessions Court …

No hanging tomorrow: Delhi court stays execution of Nirbhaya case convicts
4 years, 11 months ago

No hanging tomorrow: Delhi court stays execution of Nirbhaya case convicts

India Today  

A Delhi court on Friday approved the plea filed by death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case convicts, seeking a stay on their execution on February 1. Advocate AP Singh, representing the convicts -- Pawan Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Akshay Kumar -- has urged the court to adjourn the executions "sine die" as Vinay's mercy plea before the president …

Nirbhaya convicts move plea in Patiala House Court seeking stay on execution date
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya convicts move plea in Patiala House Court seeking stay on execution date

India TV News  

2012 Nirbhaya Case: Lawyer of the convicts, AP Singh on Thursday moved a plea in Delhi's Patiala House Court seeking a stay on the date of the execution of the convicts, which is scheduled for February 1. Later in the day, the Supreme Court will hear the curative petition of one of the four Nirbhaya gang-rape death row convicts, Akshay …

Nirbhaya case: Supreme Court rejects rapist’s plea on mercy
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya case: Supreme Court rejects rapist’s plea on mercy

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a plea by Mukesh Kumar, a death row convict in the Nirbhaya case, challenging the rejection of his mercy petition by the President of India on the ground that all relevant material relating to the case was not placed before the President, and thus there was “non-application of mind” in treating his …

Nirbhaya gangrape convict Vinay Sharma files mercy plea
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya gangrape convict Vinay Sharma files mercy plea

India TV News  

Vinay Sharma, one of the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder convict has filed a mercy petition before President of India on Wednesday for the commutation of his capital punishment to a life sentence, his lawyer AP Singh confirmed. Vinay's mercy plea comes three-days ahead of the date of hanging all four gangrape and murder convicts. Vinay Sharma is lodged in …

Nirbhaya Case : SC To Consider Death Row Convict Akshay Kumar Singh's Curative Plea Tomorrow
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya Case : SC To Consider Death Row Convict Akshay Kumar Singh's Curative Plea Tomorrow

Live Law  

A 5-judge bench of the Supreme Court will consider the curative plea filed by Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the four death-row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case.The petition will be considered by a bench comprising Justices N V Ramana, Arun Mishra, R F Nariman, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan at 1 PM in chambers.The hangings of …

SC dismisses 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Mukesh Singh's appeal against rejection of mercy plea; fellow convict files curative petition challenging execution
4 years, 11 months ago

SC dismisses 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Mukesh Singh's appeal against rejection of mercy plea; fellow convict files curative petition challenging execution

Firstpost  

Also on Wednesday, Akshay Singh, another fellow convict in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case challenged his execution scheduled on 1 February by filing a curative plea, the last legal resort in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case, …

Swift Rejection Of Mercy Petition Cannot Be A Ground For Judicial Review Of President 's Order: SC [Read Judgment]
4 years, 11 months ago

Swift Rejection Of Mercy Petition Cannot Be A Ground For Judicial Review Of President 's Order: SC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has held that the quick consideration of the mercy petition and swift rejection of the same cannot be a ground for judicial review of the order passed under Article 72/161 of the Constitution.Merely because there was quick consideration and rejection of the petitioner's mercy petition, it cannot be assumed that the matter was proceeded with pre-determined mind, …

[Breaking] SC Dismisses Nirbhaya Convict Mukesh's Plea Against Mercy Rejection By President [Read Order]
4 years, 11 months ago

[Breaking] SC Dismisses Nirbhaya Convict Mukesh's Plea Against Mercy Rejection By President [Read Order]

Live Law  

Three days ahead of the scheduled execution of death penalties in the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder case, the Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved orders on the plea filed by Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts, against the rejection of his mercy plea by the President. On the petitioner's argument that the mercy plea was rejected hurriedly, the Solicitor …

Verdict reserved in Nirbhaya case: Order will be pronounced by the court on Wednesday
4 years, 11 months ago

Verdict reserved in Nirbhaya case: Order will be pronounced by the court on Wednesday

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a plea by one of the Nirbhaya case death row convicts, Mukesh, challenging the rejection of his mercy petition by the President on the ground that the entire material relating to the case was not placed before President Ram Nath Kovind. Reserving the order, a bench comprising Justice R. …

Nirbhaya rape convict claims he was raped inside Tihar jail
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya rape convict claims he was raped inside Tihar jail

Op India  

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Challenging the dismissal of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind on January 17, one of the convicts in Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, Mukesh Singh has now claimed that he was raped in Tihar jail where he has been an inmate since 2013. Filing a petition in Supreme court seeking judicial …

Nirbhaya Case : 'Mercy Rejection Cannot Be Challenged Saying That President Acted Fast', Submits SG; SC Reserves Order On Mukesh's Plea
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya Case : 'Mercy Rejection Cannot Be Challenged Saying That President Acted Fast', Submits SG; SC Reserves Order On Mukesh's Plea

Live Law  

Four days ahead of the scheduled execution of death penalties in the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder case, the Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved orders on the plea filed by Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts, against the rejection of his mercy plea by the President.A bench comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna heard the plea …

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