Gujarat: Notice to 38 as government seeks to confirm death penalty
The bench of Justice Sonia Gokani and Justice Mauna Bhatt issued notice in response to the state government’s application for confirmation of death sentence awarded to them
The bench of Justice Sonia Gokani and Justice Mauna Bhatt issued notice in response to the state government’s application for confirmation of death sentence awarded to them
<p>The four men convicted in the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi in December 2012 were executed by hanging at Tihar Jail at 5:30am on Friday. The victim was attacked by the group when she and a friend boarded a bus the assailants were driving. She was abandoned by the gang […]</p>
<p>Hangman Pawan on Wednesday performed a dummy execution of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case at Tihar Jail, two days ahead of their scheduled hanging on March 20, officials said. Pawan had arrived from Meerut on Tuesday and conducted the dummy execution to test the ropes, which will be […]</p>
<p>President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Gupta, one of the four convicts in the Delhi gangrape case. The Delhi government had earlier recommended rejecting Gupta’s mercy petition. He was the only one out of the four convicts to not have exhausted all the legal remedies. On Monday, a court in […]</p>
<p>A Delhi court on Monday issued a fresh date for execution of death warrant against four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. The new date of hanging the convicts has been set as March 3 at 6 am. Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana issued fresh warrants against death row convicts- Mukesh Kumar […]</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Friday posted for hearing the Central government’s appeal seeking separate hanging of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape-and-murder case for 2:00pm on February 11. The Centre had appealed in the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court’s order that dismissed its plea against the stay on execution of the four convicts […]</p>
<p>The scheduled execution of the convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case was deferred till further orders by a Delhi court on Friday. Additional Sessions judge Dharmender Rana at the Patiala House court complex passed the order on a plea by one of the convicts seeking a stay on their execution scheduled for […]</p>
<p>Tihar jail authorities on Friday challenged before a Delhi court the maintainability of the application filed by three death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, seeking stay of their execution on February 1. Opposing the plea, the prison authorities told Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana that the mercy plea of only one […]</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon dismissed the curative petition filed by Nirbhaya case convict Akshay Thakur on Thursday. The hearing was conducted by a bench comprising six judges. Headed by Justice NV Ramana, the bench heard the curative petition filed by one of the four convicts. The curative petition was Akshay’s last legal resort […]</p>