Nirbhaya death row: Convicts moves Delhi court seeking stay of execution scheduled for February 1
The legal representative for the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case has now moved Delhi court seeking stay of execution slated for 1st February, stating legal remedies of some of them are yet to be used.
The petition was registered by convicts’ legal representative AP Singh in Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Thursday.
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Lawyer AP Singh claimed in the plea that according to the Delhi Prison rules, none of the four convicts in the same crime can be hanged till the last convict has exhausted all his legal options including the mercy petition. #NirbhayaCase https://t.co/rNOwgZmArt
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Lawyer for the convicts stated that legal remedies of some of the convicts is yet to be availed. In the plea, the legal representative claimed that as per the Delhi Prison rules, none of the four convicts in the same crime can be executed till the last convict has used up all legal options including the mercy plea.
The Petition was put forward before Special Judge AK Jain who stated that the matter will be heard later in the day.
Earlier, a court had put out black warrants for the second time for the hanging of all the four convicts in Tihar jail at 6 am on 1st February. Previously, the court had predetermined 22nd January as the hanging date.
The 23-year-old paramedic student was gang raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 in a moving bus in south Delhi. She died on December 29, 2012, at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
First published: 30 January 2020, 14:25 IST