President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy pleas of Pawan Kumar on Wednesday, bringing a final closure to all processes that can be taken by the four convicts of the Nirbhaya rape case.
After this, the Tihar jail authorities have now moved the Delhi Patiala House Court, seeking a fresh date of execution of death warrant for all four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case.
A Tihar spokesperson earlier said, “in view of the rejection of mercy petition of Pawan by the Hon’ble President of India, we will be approaching the Patiala House Court today for fixing a fresh date of execution of death warrant in respect of all the four convicts.”
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Advocate Seema Kushwaha, lawyer of the parents of the December 2012 gangrape and murder victim, on Wednesday said that they are moving an application seeking a fresh date for the execution of the four convicts.
“We are moving a fresh application in Delhi court to fix a fresh date for the execution of the four convicts. All the convicts have exhausted their complete rights. The date which will be fixed now will be the final date,” Kushwaha told the press.
A Delhi court had on Monday stayed for the third time the death sentence of the four convicts in the case observing that they cannot be executed while a mercy petition is pending before the President.
The other convicts have already exhausted all procedures for a stay of the death penalty. This was the last of the mercy petitions that could have been considered by the President of India.
Nirbhaya, a young medico, was brutally raped and left to die in December 2012. She died a few days later in a hospital in Singapore.