{"id":8727,"date":"2020-03-02T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8727"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:06","slug":"nirbhaya-case-execution-stayed-as-convict-pawan-gupta-files-mercy-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/nirbhaya-case-execution-stayed-as-convict-pawan-gupta-files-mercy-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirbhaya case: execution stayed as convict Pawan Gupta files mercy plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Patiala House Court on Monday stayed the execution of four death-row convicts in Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case which was scheduled to take place at 6 am on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div>The development comes as one of the convicts, Pawan Gupta, filed a mercy plea after the Supreme Court dismissed his curative petition.<\/div>\n<div>Additional Sessions judge Dharmendar Rana reprimanded Pawan&#8217;s lawyer AP Singh for filing the petition so late while the Delhi High Court had on February 5 given the convicts one week&#8217;s time to exhaust all the legal remedies available to them. The judge told the lawyer, &#8220;You are playing with fire, you should be cautious.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Earlier in the day, the Patiala House Court had rejected a plea moved by the four death-row convicts in Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case to stay their execution scheduled on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Also, the Supreme Court had dismissed the curative petition of convict Pawan Gupta. In his petition, Pawan had urged to reduce the death sentence to life imprisonment.<\/div>\n<div>However, Pawan filed a mercy plea with President immediately after his curative plea was dismissed. Once a mercy plea is rejected, a convict can only be hanged after 14 days from the date of rejection. Hanging of the four death row convicts in the case was scheduled on March 3, Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div>So far three death warrants have been issued for the convicts in the Nirbhaya case, of which two were invalidated as the convicts kept resorting to legal remedies.<\/div>\n<div>Six persons were arrested and charged with rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in 2012, which came to be known as the Nirbhaya case. One of the accused was a minor and was tried in the juvenile justice court. He was released after three years. Another accused \u2013 Ram Singh \u2013 had allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not clear if the execution will take place on Tuesday.<\/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":[143,83,132,78,308,59,147],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-death-sentence","9":"tag-delhi","10":"tag-gender","11":"tag-nirbhaya","12":"tag-nirbhaya-case","13":"tag-rape","14":"tag-tihar-jail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8727"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=8727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}