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.
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