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Oct 05, 2020 10:55 PM IST AP Singh has been appointed by the Akhil Bharatiya Kshatriya Mahasabha - an upper caste organisation – to defend the Hathras rape case accused
Mar 20, 2020 01:02 PM IST The four convicts were hanged on March 20 in Tihar Jail seven years after committing the crime after the Supreme Court dismissed their final petitions seeking clemency.
Mar 20, 2020 12:15 PM IST The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013, provided for rigorous life term and even death sentence for rape convicts besides stringent punishment for offences like acid attacks, stalking and voyeurism.
Mar 20, 2020 05:39 AM IST A 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as 'Nirbhaya' (fearless), was gang raped and assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16, 2012. She died after a fortnight.
Mar 18, 2020 11:39 AM IST Punita Devi's plea says that she wants to be legally divorced before Akshay Thakur gets hanged, as she does not want to live the life of a widow.
Mar 11, 2020 06:02 PM IST The convict has alleged that the policemen thrashed him while in custody, leaving him with a severe head injury
Mar 06, 2020 03:43 PM IST As of March 5, the four convicts – Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh – had exhausted all legal remedies
Mar 05, 2020 02:45 PM IST As of now, the four convicts – Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh – have exhausted all legal remedies.
Mar 05, 2020 11:32 AM IST Hope people will not lose faith in the judiciary because of the delay in implementation of punishment of the convicts who are facing the gallows in the Nirbhaya case, an editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' has said.
Mar 02, 2020 11:38 AM IST Pawan Kumar Gupta was the last death row convict in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case to move the Supreme Court with his curative petition — the final legal remedy available to a person.
Feb 29, 2020 06:18 PM IST In his plea moved through his lawyer, Singh claimed that he has filed a fresh mercy petition before the President of India, which is pending.
Feb 29, 2020 04:47 PM IST On February 17, a Delhi court had issued a fresh death warrant for the four convicts, setting March 3 as the date for the hanging.
Feb 28, 2020 03:58 PM IST The mercy petitions of three convicts – Mukesh, Vinay and Akshay – have already been dismissed by the President.
Feb 20, 2020 01:01 PM IST According to a senior officer, there has been a “stark change” in the behaviour of the convicts since the new death warrant was isued. They have been behaving aggressively with the jail wardens and guards, said the officer
Feb 13, 2020 05:03 PM IST Mukesh, Vinay, Akshay and Pawan were sentenced to death in September 2013 by the trial court.
Feb 13, 2020 11:49 AM IST The next Supreme Court hearing on the case has been scheduled at 2 pm on Feb 14, after the replies from the death row convicts are in.
Feb 07, 2020 03:20 PM IST Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana took note of the Delhi High Court's February 5 order permitting the convicts to exercise their legal remedies within one week.
Feb 07, 2020 01:15 PM IST A bench headed by Justice R Bhanumathi did not heed to the request of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was seeking issuance of notice to the four convicts on the Centre's plea, saying it would further delay the matter.
Feb 06, 2020 11:04 AM IST Additional Solicitor General K M Natraj, appearing for the Centre, mentioned the matter for urgent listing before a bench comprising justices N V Ramana, Sanjiv Khanna and Krishna Murari.
Feb 05, 2020 08:29 PM IST President Kovind has already rejected the clemency petition of two other accused in the case Mukesh Singh and Vinay Kumar Sharma
Feb 05, 2020 06:50 PM IST Justice Kait had on February 2 reserved order on the Centre's plea after holding special hearings over the weekend
Feb 03, 2020 09:12 AM IST The lawyers appearing for the four convicts told the High Court that some of them cannot be singled out for execution and neither the Centre nor the Delhi government has the power under the rules to do so
Feb 01, 2020 05:09 PM IST The Delhi High Court is hearing the plea now.
Feb 01, 2020 03:00 PM IST With this, the two of the four convicts have exhausted all legal recourse to escape the gallows.
Feb 01, 2020 12:13 PM IST With this, the mercy pleas of two convicts stand rejected, one is pending before the President and the fourth is yet to file one.
