New Delhi (NVI): A Delhi Court today stayed the execution of four convicts in the December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case until further orders.
The execution of four convicts– Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta– was scheduled to take place at 6 am tomorrow. Multiple petitions have been filed by the four men in their attempts to stall their execution.
The Delhi court’s stay on the execution of convicts comes hours after the Supreme Court dismissed a plea filed by one of the convicts seeking a review of its order dismissing his juvenility claim. The review was filed earlier in the day by Pawan Gupta.
Of the four convicts, Mukesh Kumar Singh has exhausted all his legal remedies, including the clemency plea which was dismissed by President Ram Nath Kovind on January 17 and the appeal against the rejection was thrown out by Supreme Court on Wednesday.
On December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old woman was gang-raped and assaulted inside a moving bus in South Delhi by six persons, before being thrown out on the road. She later died on December 29, 2012, at a hospital in Singapore.
