Nirbhaya Row: Delhi High Court Rejects Centre’s Plea to Hang all 4 Convicts Separately

New Delhi, February 5, 2020:

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected the Union government’s plea to execute the four convicts of the gruesome Nirbhaya rape and murder case and said that all the four had to be hanged together for the “Delhi Crime” on December 16, 2012.

The court observed that since all the four were involved in the same crime, they have to be executed together. Justice Suresh Kait gave them a week’s time to file any application the convicts wanted and post the seven days’ time, the authorities would act as per rules.

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It may be mentioned here that the union and Delhi governments had challenged the trial court’s order on January 31 staying the execution of Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Kumar Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar (31), the convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case.

The trial court on January 7, had ordered the execution of all the four convicts in Tihar Jail at 7 AM on January 22. However, they execution was postponed until further orders following the mercy petition of one of them. Later, on January 17, the trial court fixed February 1, 6 AM as the hanging date and time.

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On January 31, the trial court again stayed the hanging as the counsel for three convicts, Pawan, Vinay and Akshay, urged it to suspend the matter saying their legal remedies were yet to be exhausted. However, today, the Delhi High Court gave them seven days’ time to exhaust all their legal remedies.

Vinay, Mukesh, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta are the four convicts in the gruesome rape and murder of Nirbhaya (name changed) on December 16, 2012. She died on December 29, 2012 at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

The brutality of the rape had shocked the nation and tagged Delhi as the rape capital of India. It had led to massive protests across the country demanding justice for Nirbhaya and the countless crimes carried out against women.

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