Delhi Gangrape Case: Convicts can't be hanged separately

DELHI GANGRAPE CASE: CONVICTS CAN’T BE HANGED SEPARATELY; ONE WEEK TO FILE FOR ANY LEGAL REMEDY; CONVICT AKSHAY’S MERCY PLEA REJECTED

Delhi High Court dismissed Centre’s plea challenging trial court order which had stayed the execution of all 4 convicts. Court says death warrant against all 4 convicts can’t be executed separately.Moreover, Justice Suresh Kumar Kait directed convicts to file any application which they want within one week after which authorities should act.

The Centre and Delhi government had filed a plea challenging the January 31st order of Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala House Court, Dharmendra Rana. The Delhi court on Friday, stayed till further orders the hanging of three Nirbhaya gang rape-murder case death row convicts which was scheduled for the 1st of Febuary. While staying the execution, the Delhi court observed, "The courts of this country cannot afford to adversely discriminate any convict, including death row convict, in pursuit of his legal remedies, by turning Nelson's eye towards him." 

The three convicts - Akshay Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, and Vinay Kumar Sharma - had moved the court seeking a stay on their hanging. The fourth convict Mukesh Kumar Singh has exhausted all his legal remedies.

The four convicts were first scheduled to be hanged on 22nd January. Later a second death warrant was issued, on 6 AM on February 1, after Mukesh filed a mercy petition to the President and several pleas in various courts before. On 5th Febuary President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy plea filed by convict Akshay Kumar Singh.