New Delhi (NVI): A Delhi court today issued fresh death warrants and a new date to hang the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. The convicts will be hanged on February 1 at 6 am in Tihar Jail. This comes hours after President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition of Mukesh Singh, one of the four convicts.
On Wednesday, the Delhi government had told the Delhi High Court that irrespective of a date and time fixed for the execution, it cannot take place as long as their mercy petition was pending before the President.
Mukesh Singh and the three other convicts– Vinay Sharma, Akshay Kumar and Pawan Gupta– were scheduled to be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar Jail.
Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old girl, was brutally raped and murdered on the night of December 16, 2012 in a south Delhi area.
