Nirbhaya case: fresh death warrants issued for March 3
This is the third time the court is giving such orders
18/02/2020, SOIBAM ROCKY SINGH,NEW DELHI
A Delhi court on Monday issued fresh death warrants for March 3 at 6 a.m. against all the four convicts in the December 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case.
All convicts are “to be hanged by the neck until they are dead on March 3, at 6 a.m.,” it said. The order was passed by additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana pursuant to pleas by Tihar Jail and the victim’s parents, seeking issuance of a fresh date to hang them.
This is the third time the court is issuing death warrants against Mukesh Kumar Singh, 32, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Kumar Sharma, 26, and Akshay Kumar, 31.
The trial court had issued the first death warrants for January 22, which were later postponed to February 1.
On Monday, the court discharged Vrinda Grover as counsel for Mukesh after he asked for a change of his advocate. It then appointed legal aid counsel Ravi Qazi to represent him. Mr. Qazi, who is already representing Pawan, said Pawan wanted to move curative and mercy petitions.
The court was also informed by counsel for convict Akshay that in his earlier mercy petition, owing to poverty and ignorance, the complete facts could not be brought before the President, and he had prepared a fresh mercy petition that would soon be moved before the President.
This is the third time the court is giving such orders
18/02/2020, SOIBAM ROCKY SINGH,NEW DELHI
A Delhi court on Monday issued fresh death warrants for March 3 at 6 a.m. against all the four convicts in the December 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case.
All convicts are “to be hanged by the neck until they are dead on March 3, at 6 a.m.,” it said. The order was passed by additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana pursuant to pleas by Tihar Jail and the victim’s parents, seeking issuance of a fresh date to hang them.
This is the third time the court is issuing death warrants against Mukesh Kumar Singh, 32, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Kumar Sharma, 26, and Akshay Kumar, 31.
The trial court had issued the first death warrants for January 22, which were later postponed to February 1.
On Monday, the court discharged Vrinda Grover as counsel for Mukesh after he asked for a change of his advocate. It then appointed legal aid counsel Ravi Qazi to represent him. Mr. Qazi, who is already representing Pawan, said Pawan wanted to move curative and mercy petitions.
The court was also informed by counsel for convict Akshay that in his earlier mercy petition, owing to poverty and ignorance, the complete facts could not be brought before the President, and he had prepared a fresh mercy petition that would soon be moved before the President.
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