{"id":8168,"date":"2020-01-17T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8168"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:16","slug":"nirbhaya-case-convicts-to-be-hanged-on-february-1-at-6-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/nirbhaya-case-convicts-to-be-hanged-on-february-1-at-6-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirbhaya case convicts to be hanged on February 1 at 6 am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh death warrant was issued by a court in Delhi for hanging of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case. The time has been fixed at 6 am on February 1.\u00a0The four convicts on death row are Pawan Gupta, Mukesh Singh, Akshay Singh and Vinay Sharma.\u00a0Earlier, the four were to be hanged in Delhi\u2019s Tihar Jail on January 22 at 7 am, but the execution cannot be carried out due to the legal steps that give the convicts further chance to file petitions against the death sentence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/supreme-court-dismisses-plea-against-death-sentence-by-2-convicts-in-nirbhaya-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Supreme Court has earlier dismissed the curative petitions<\/span><\/a> of two of the four convicted in the case. This was their last possible legal appeal against the death sentence. A Delhi court had thus on January 7 issued the death warrant against the four death row convicts. Later, Mukesh Singh appealed to the President against the death sentence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/nirbhaya-case-president-rejects-mercy-plea-of-convict-mukesh-singh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Earlier today,\u00a0President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy plea<\/span><\/a> filed by Mukesh Singh. He turned down the plea just hours after it was forwarded to him by the Union Home Ministry.\u00a0This petition was filed by Mukesh Singh on Tuesday after the Supreme Court dismissed the curative petitions filed by him and another convict Vinay Sharma. However, as the mercy petition of Mukesh Singh was pending before the President, the Delhi government had told the court earlier this week that the four were not likely to be hanged before the matter was cleared by him.<\/p>\n<p>While Mukesh\u2019s mercy plea has now been turned down, the other three convicts in the case have not yet appealed to the President with mercy petitions. A period of 14 day is given to a convict between the President\u2019s rejection of a mercy petition and the date of the execution. A fresh date has now been fixed at February 1 based on the 14-day time between the rejection of the mercy plea and the date of execution.<\/p>\n<p>Nirbhaya&#8217;s mother Asha Devi, has been extremely distraught for the past few days saying that new dates for hanging the rapists were emerging and &#8220;justice&#8221; was being delayed. She said she would not be convinced till the actual hanging takes place.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/nirbhaya-case-womens-rights-groups-write-to-the-president-to-say-death-penalty-not-a-deterrent-against-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">16 organisations and more than 350 persons working for women\u2019s rights urged the President<\/span> <\/a>to stop the execution saying punishment was \u201cnot a deterrent against crimes\u201d. They said that there was \u201cno shortcut to justice and safety\u201d and pointed out the need to focus on long term social change. It was also the failure of authorities to ensure security to women that is required.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, six persons were arrested and charged with rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi, which came to be known as the Nirbhaya case. One of the accused was a minor and was tried in the juvenile justice court. Another accused \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/i-believe-ram-singhs-nirbhaya-gangrape-main-accused-cell-mates-were-allowed-to-murder-him-sunil-gupta-former-legal-advisor-tihar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Ram Singh \u2013 had allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the day, the President turned down the mercy petition of convict, Mukesh Singh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,132,78,71,59],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-asha-devi","tag-gender","tag-nirbhaya","tag-posco-act","tag-rape"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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