Nirbhaya Case  

The Supreme Court said that if a convict in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case files any petition, it will be the court's top priority, since the rapists are going to be executed on February 1. Mukesh Kumar Singh's counsel asked to approach the registry of the court for an urgent listing of his plea against rejection of mercy petition by the President.

Under Article 72, the President of India has the power to pardon a convict. Article 72 says that the President shall have the powers to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment. This, however, comes with certain conditions.

Senior advocate Indira Jaising urged the mother of Nirbhaya to pardon the men on death row who were convicted for the 2012 gang rape of her daughter

Delhi court issued fresh death warrants against four Nirbhaya case convicts for February 1, 6 am.
 

President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition of 2012 Delhi gang-rape case convict Mukesh Singh

Sources said, the ministry of home affairs had sent Nirbhaya convict Mukesh Singh’s mercy petition to the President on Thursday night

The four Nirbhaya case convicts were sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in the national capital on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court had rejected the curative petitions of two death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case. However, one of the convicts has once again sought a stay on the death warrant issued against him by a trial court.

The Supreme Court will on Tuesday (January 14) hear the curative petition of two death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case. However, the victim's mother is hoping that their pleas are rejected, and the convicts would be hanged to death on January 22.

The petition was filed on behalf of death row convict Mukesh Kumar, one of the four men sentenced to death in the Nirbhaya case.
 

A curative petition was filed before the Supreme Court by one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya case. The Patiala house court stated that the four convicts will be hanged at 7am on January 22.
         

In 14 days from now, on January 22 at 7am, the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case will be hanged to death. What are the steps taken before they reach the gallows? Watch SimplifiedBy on MyNation.

Tihar Jail authorities said they will be conducting dummy execution of Nirbhaya convicts before January 22. All the four convicts will be hanged on January 22 at 7 am. 

A Delhi court issued death warrants against the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. The verdict pronounced stated that the four convicts will be hanged on January 22 at 7am. Do not miss the top stories of the day on MyNation in 100 seconds.

 

The advocate for the convicts in Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, AP Singh, stated that they will be filing a curative petition in the Supreme Court within two days as they were issued the death warrant by a Delhi court earlier in the day.