Nirbhaya Case: Plea for stay dismissed, hanging to take place tomorrow

Today, the Delhi Court has dismissed a plea which sought stay on the hangings of Nirbhaya gangrape and murder convicts, now all four will be hanged tomorrow at 5.30 am.

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Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, challenging the rejection of his second mercy petition by the President of India has rejected a plea from one of the convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh.

The Supreme Court has also denied to hear plea from another convict, Mukesh Singh, challenging a Delhi High Court order that had rejected his claim of not being in Delhi on December 16,2012.

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On the cold wintry night of 16 December, 2012, Nirbhaya was gangraped by six people in a moving bus. The incident was a display of brutality which shaked Indians and filled them with fury, poured into the streets to demand justice.

Four of the rapists -- Mukesh Singh (32), Akshay Kumar Singh (31), Pawan Gupta (25) and Vinay Sharma (26) -- are on death row and will be hanged tomorrow. Another killed himself in jail and the sixth-- a juvenile, was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term.

It is going to happen for the first time ever that four men will be hanged together in Tihar Jail -- South Asia's largest prison complex, which houses more than 16,000 inmates.

Nirbhaya's mother, Asha Devi, says she will now get peace.Nirbhaya case: Court pulls up lawyer on new plea to defer hanging


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