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Nirbhaya case: HC reserves order; convict claims was absent during incident

Justice Brijesh Sethi reserved the order after hearing arguments of counsels of the convict and the Delhi government

Nirbhaya case: Tihar officials to conduct dummy execution of convicts today

The four convicts in the 2012 case are scheduled to be hanged at 5:30 am on March 20

Nirbhaya convict Akshay files second mercy petition after ICJ rejects stay

Officials at Tihar Jail, where the hanging is scheduled to take place, said Kumar filed the petition addressed to the President on Tuesday evening.

Nirbhaya case: Hangman reached Tihar Jail, three days before hanging

A dummy execution will take place a day prior to the execution

'Time is precious judicial entity': Court rejects Nirbhaya convict's plea

The court asked the Bar Council of India to give appropriate sensitisation exercise to Singh's counsel

Nirbhaya case convict Mukesh Singh moves Delhi HC to quash death sentence

In support of his contention, Mukesh claimed that he was arrested from Rajasthan and brought to Delhi on December 17, 2012, a day after the incident.

Three Nirbhaya case convicts move ICJ seeking stay on death sentence

The petition claimed that the convicts have been treated as "guinea pigs" and have been falsely implicated in the case and it urged the ICJ to order urgent probe into the matter

Nirbhaya case: HC declines to entertain plea to assess health of convicts

A Delhi court had on Monday deferred till further orders the hanging of the convicts because of pending disposal of a convict's mercy plea

Delhi govt recommends rejecting mercy plea of one of Nirbhaya convicts

Sources said that the Delhi government made the recommendation just a few minutes after it received the mercy petition from the Union Home Ministry

Nirbhaya case: Delhi court fixes March 20 for execution of four convicts

The death row convicts are: Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31)

Nirbhaya case: Delhi govt seeks fresh execution date for convicts

Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court rejected a petition seeking direction to NHRC to assess mental as well as physical health of the convicts

SC to hear Nirbhaya convict Pawan Kumar's plea seeking life term today

Pawan Kumar Gupta is the fourth convict in the case to file a curative petition

Two Nirbhaya case convicts seek stay on execution citing pending mercy plea

Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana issued notice to Tihar Jail authorities on the plea of Singh, directing them to file their response by March 2

Nirbhaya case: Death row convict Pawan Gupta moves curative plea in SC

He is the lone convict among the four who has not exhausted his legal remedies of filing a curative petition and subsequent mercy plea with the President

Nirbhaya case: SC to hear today Centre's plea on separate hangings

The Centre moved the apex court after the Delhi High Court had rejected its petition

Court rejects Nirbhaya convict's plea, says he suffers from mental illness

Tihar jail authorities had termed his claims as a "bundle of distorted fats" and told the court that CCTV footage established that the convict had inflicted "superficial" injuries on himself

Nirbhaya case: Tihar Jail writes to convicts on last meeting with families

Tihar Jail administration has also written a letter to the Uttar Pradesh Jail administration to send the hangman two days before March 3

Four Nirbhaya convicts will now be hanged on March 3; fresh warrant issued

The court was hearing the applications by Nirbhaya's parents and the Delhi government, seeking fresh death warrants for the convicts

Nirbhaya case: SC dismisses convict's plea against mercy petition rejection

The apex court had earlier dismissed a similar plea filed by another death row convict in the case, Mukesh Kumar Singh

Nirbhaya case: SC seeks convicts' response on govt appeal against HC order

A three-judge bench headed by Justice R Banumathi granted liberty to the authorities to approach the trial court for issuance of fresh date for the execution of these convict