New Delhi (NVI): A Delhi court today issued fresh death warrants and a new date to hang the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
As per the new order, the convicts are scheduled to be hanged on March 3 at 6am in Tihar Jail.
Additional Session Judge Dharmendra Rana issued death warrants against convicts – Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar (31).
This is the third time that death warrants have been issued against them.
The date of execution, first fixed for January 22, was postponed to February 1 by a January 17 court order. The trial court later on January 31, stayed, “till further orders” the execution of the four convicts, as they had not exhausted all their legal remedies.
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.
