Nirbhaya Convict Death News
- All
- News
-
Nirbhaya Case Updates: "Our Nari Shakti Has Excelled In Every Field": PM On Nirbhaya Verdict
The four convicts in the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail at 5:30 am today. After three of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case moved the Delhi high court Thursday evening challenging the trial court order declining to stay their execution scheduled for ea...
-
They Deserve It: Ex-High Court Judges On Death Penalty To Nirbhaya Convicts
Former judges of the Delhi High Court on Thursday backed the death penalty for the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case asserting that it was a rarest of the rare case and the "brutality" committed by them on December 16, 2012 deserved the extreme punishment.
-
Delhi Court Pulls Up Nirbhaya Convicts' Lawyer Over "Last Hour Approach"
A Delhi court on Wednesday came down heavily on the lawyer representing the death-row convicts in Nirbhaya rape case, asking him why he always approaches court at the last hour.
-
Nirbhaya Convict Pawan Gupta Files Curative Petition In Supreme Court
Four days before their scheduled date of hanging, Pawan Kumar Gupta, a convict in the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi - dubbed Nirbhaya by the media - today filed a curative petition before the Supreme Court seeking his death sentence be changed to life imprisonment.
-
"I Am Hopeful": Nirbhaya's Mother On Fresh Death Warrants Against Convicts
Asha Devi, the mother of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim, on Monday voiced hope that fresh death warrants would be issued against all four convicts by a Delhi court today.
-
Supreme Court Judge Faints During Nirbhaya Rape-Murder Case Hearing
A Supreme Court judge fainted in the courtroom on Friday while she was dictating an order on the centre's petition seeking separate executions for the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, news agency PTI reported.
-
More Delay In Nirbhaya Case, Court To Hear Parents' Plea Tomorrow
The appeal of the parents of Nirbhaya -- calling for fresh death warrants for the men who brutally tortured and killed their 23-year-old daughter -- will be heard tomorrow, a Delhi court said as the one-week deadline given by the High Court to end the legal process before the execution came to an end today.
-
Nirbhaya Convict Asks Delhi Court To Put On Hold Saturday Execution
Two days before the four Nirbhaya case convicts are to be hanged, one of them has petitioned a Delhi court to put the execution on hold. This is the latest in a series of petitions filed by the convicts in their attempt to put off their death sentence.
-
"Delaying Tactics": Tihar Jail Amid Claims By Nirbhaya Convicts' Lawyer
A Delhi court on Saturday said no further directions were required on a petition by the lawyer of the death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case alleging the prison authorities were not handing over certain documents required to file mercy and curative petitions, and disposed of the petition.
-
"Not As Large-Hearted As...": Nirbhaya's Father On Forgiving Convicts
Nirbhaya's father on Saturday said senior lawyer Indira Jaising should be "ashamed" of suggesting pardon for the four death row convicts in his daughter's gangrape case and said his family isn't as "large-hearted" as Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.
-
Top Court To Hear Nirbhaya Convict's Plea On Juvenile Claim On January 20
The Supreme Court will hear on January 20 a plea of a death row convict in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case against a Delhi High Court order dismissing his claim of being a juvenile at the time of commission of the offence.
-
"Don't Do Politics": Arvind Kejriwal On Smriti Irani's Nirbhaya Attack
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday said it was because of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi that the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case couldn't be hanged in a time-bound manner after their review petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court in July last year.
-
Nirbhaya Case: Convicts Will Now Hang On Feb 1 At 6 am, Says Delhi Court
Fresh death warrants were issued this evening for the four men convicted of the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in 2012; the four will now be executed at 6 am on February 1
-
"Why Should I Suffer": Nirbhaya's Mother After Jail Seeks New Hanging Date
A day after the Delhi government told the high court that the death sentence to four Nirbhaya case convicts cannot be executed on January 22 as scheduled because of a mercy petition filed by one of them, the victim's mother, Asha Devi, said on Thursday why should she suffer for the "negligence" of Tihar Jail officials and the government.
-
Nirbhaya Convicts May Not Hang On January 22 Over Mercy Plea, Court Told
The execution of the four Nirbhaya case convicts "will surely not take place" on January 22 because of a mercy petition filed by one of them, the Delhi government told the High Court today. But the court refused to set aside the death warrant put out by a trial court judge, saying there was "nothing wrong with it".
-
Nirbhaya Case Updates: "Our Nari Shakti Has Excelled In Every Field": PM On Nirbhaya Verdict
The four convicts in the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail at 5:30 am today. After three of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case moved the Delhi high court Thursday evening challenging the trial court order declining to stay their execution scheduled for ea...
-
They Deserve It: Ex-High Court Judges On Death Penalty To Nirbhaya Convicts
Former judges of the Delhi High Court on Thursday backed the death penalty for the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case asserting that it was a rarest of the rare case and the "brutality" committed by them on December 16, 2012 deserved the extreme punishment.
-
Delhi Court Pulls Up Nirbhaya Convicts' Lawyer Over "Last Hour Approach"
A Delhi court on Wednesday came down heavily on the lawyer representing the death-row convicts in Nirbhaya rape case, asking him why he always approaches court at the last hour.
-
Nirbhaya Convict Pawan Gupta Files Curative Petition In Supreme Court
Four days before their scheduled date of hanging, Pawan Kumar Gupta, a convict in the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi - dubbed Nirbhaya by the media - today filed a curative petition before the Supreme Court seeking his death sentence be changed to life imprisonment.
-
"I Am Hopeful": Nirbhaya's Mother On Fresh Death Warrants Against Convicts
Asha Devi, the mother of the 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim, on Monday voiced hope that fresh death warrants would be issued against all four convicts by a Delhi court today.
-
Supreme Court Judge Faints During Nirbhaya Rape-Murder Case Hearing
A Supreme Court judge fainted in the courtroom on Friday while she was dictating an order on the centre's petition seeking separate executions for the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, news agency PTI reported.
-
More Delay In Nirbhaya Case, Court To Hear Parents' Plea Tomorrow
The appeal of the parents of Nirbhaya -- calling for fresh death warrants for the men who brutally tortured and killed their 23-year-old daughter -- will be heard tomorrow, a Delhi court said as the one-week deadline given by the High Court to end the legal process before the execution came to an end today.
-
Nirbhaya Convict Asks Delhi Court To Put On Hold Saturday Execution
Two days before the four Nirbhaya case convicts are to be hanged, one of them has petitioned a Delhi court to put the execution on hold. This is the latest in a series of petitions filed by the convicts in their attempt to put off their death sentence.
-
"Delaying Tactics": Tihar Jail Amid Claims By Nirbhaya Convicts' Lawyer
A Delhi court on Saturday said no further directions were required on a petition by the lawyer of the death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case alleging the prison authorities were not handing over certain documents required to file mercy and curative petitions, and disposed of the petition.
-
"Not As Large-Hearted As...": Nirbhaya's Father On Forgiving Convicts
Nirbhaya's father on Saturday said senior lawyer Indira Jaising should be "ashamed" of suggesting pardon for the four death row convicts in his daughter's gangrape case and said his family isn't as "large-hearted" as Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.
-
Top Court To Hear Nirbhaya Convict's Plea On Juvenile Claim On January 20
The Supreme Court will hear on January 20 a plea of a death row convict in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case against a Delhi High Court order dismissing his claim of being a juvenile at the time of commission of the offence.
-
"Don't Do Politics": Arvind Kejriwal On Smriti Irani's Nirbhaya Attack
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday said it was because of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi that the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case couldn't be hanged in a time-bound manner after their review petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court in July last year.
-
Nirbhaya Case: Convicts Will Now Hang On Feb 1 At 6 am, Says Delhi Court
Fresh death warrants were issued this evening for the four men convicted of the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in 2012; the four will now be executed at 6 am on February 1
-
"Why Should I Suffer": Nirbhaya's Mother After Jail Seeks New Hanging Date
A day after the Delhi government told the high court that the death sentence to four Nirbhaya case convicts cannot be executed on January 22 as scheduled because of a mercy petition filed by one of them, the victim's mother, Asha Devi, said on Thursday why should she suffer for the "negligence" of Tihar Jail officials and the government.
-
Nirbhaya Convicts May Not Hang On January 22 Over Mercy Plea, Court Told
The execution of the four Nirbhaya case convicts "will surely not take place" on January 22 because of a mercy petition filed by one of them, the Delhi government told the High Court today. But the court refused to set aside the death warrant put out by a trial court judge, saying there was "nothing wrong with it".
