New Delhi, March 5: A Delhi court on Thursday issued fresh death warrants for execution of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case for March 20 at 5.30 am.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana fixed March 20 as the new date of execution after it was told by the Delhi government that the convicts had exhausted all their legal remedies.
The lawyer for the four death row convicts also told the court that there was no legal impediment for court in proceeding to fix the date of execution.
The four convicts—Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Akshay Kumar—were scheduled to be executed on March 3 at 6 a.m. but the court deferred it till further orders on the grounds that Pawan’s mercy petition is pending.
The case pertains to the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old girl, dubbed later as Nirbhaya, in the national capital in December 2012. Six people, including the four convicts and a juvenile, were named as accused.
Ram Singh, the sixth accused, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar jail days after the trial began in the case. The juvenile was released in 2015 after spending three years in a correctional home. Agencies
