New Delhi (NVI): Delhi High Court today dismissed the Centre’s plea challenging a trial court order which had stayed the execution of all four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case.
The Court observed that all four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape should be hanged together, not separately. The Court also gave all the convicts one week’s time to seek their legal remedies.
While pronouncing the order, Justice Suresh Kait said that all the four convicts have to be executed together and not separately. “I hereby direct them to file any application they want within a week after which authorities should act,” he added.
The order was passed on a petition filed by the Central government challenging trial court order which had stayed the execution of all four convicts.
The execution of four convicts– Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta– was scheduled to take place on February 1.
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.
