A Delhi court on Monday transferred the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape case to another judge to decide whether to direct Tihar Jail authorities to expedite the execution of the convicts.
District Judge Yashwant Kumar sent the case to Additional Sessions Judge Satish Arora, on an application by victim's parents in this regard, who will hear the matter on November 28.
The application was moved since the earlier two judges hearing the matter got transferred and the matter kept getting adjourned continuously, the applicants had said.
The special fast track court, set up to hear cases of sexual harassment cases exclusively, is currently vacant at Patiala House Court and no judge has been appointed till now.
The application said that victim's parents approached the court since the convicts have exhausted all legal remedies.
In December last year, Nirbhaya's parents, approached the court to fast-track the procedure to hang all four convicts in the case.
Supreme Court on December 12, 2018, dismissed the PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to execute the death penalty awarded to four convicts -- Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay and Akshay -- in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case.
The 23-year-old paramedic student was gang-raped on December 16, 2012.
The victim, who was severely assaulted, succumbed to injuries at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore on December 29, where she had been airlifted for medical treatment.
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