On Wednesday, a petition was moved in a Delhi Court seeking fresh Death Warrant for the execution of the 4 convicts in the Dec 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape & murder case contending that the convicts have exhausted all the legal remedies.
Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana issued notice to the convicts seeking their response on the application & slated the matter for hearing at 2 pm tomorrow.
Public Prosecutor Advocate Irfan Ahmad, appearing for the state, sought the issuance of a fresh date for execution today itself saying that the convicts have exhausted all the legal remedies available to them.
He said that “The only legal remedy available to Pawan Gupta has also been exhausted… As there is no legal remedy left, please issue a fresh date of execution today itself”.
This comes after President Ram Nath Kovind, earlier today, rejected the mercy plea of Pawan Gupta, one of the 4 death row convicts in the case. Gupta was the fourth convict to file his mercy petition.
On Monday, a Delhi Court stayed for the third time the death sentence of 4 convicts in the case observing that they can’t be executed while a mercy plea is pending before the President.
The President has rejected the mercy plea of all the convicts in the case.
However, a “complete” mercy plea of convict Akshay Singh Thakur was recently filed alleging that the previous one, which was rejected by the President on Feb 5, didn’t have “complete facts”.
Meanwhile, Pawan Gupta’s curative plea seeking commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment was also dismissed by the Apex Court on Monday.
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