Pawan Kumar Gupta

Nirbhaya's father today expressed hope that the convicts will be hanged this month, after President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four men facing the gallows in the case.

The Union Home Ministry has received the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four men facing the gallows in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, officials said on Monday.

Convicts Akshay Singh and Pawan Kumar Gupta on Saturday moved a Delhi court seeking a stay on the execution of death warrants, scheduled for March 3, in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. AP Singh, Pawan Kumar Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma, Akshay Kumar

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.

Amid outrage over the delay in hanging four people convicted in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Supreme Court has come out with guidelines to ensure that criminal appeals involving the death penalty are heard and settled at the earliest.

The Supreme Court Thursday appointed senior advocate Anjana Prakash to represent one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case who was unrepresented after dropping his earlier lawyer.

One of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case challenged the rejection of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Vinay Sharma's counsel, AP Singh, also sought the reduction of his punishment from death sentence to life imprisonment.

Asha Devi, mother of 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim, on Monday termed the petition by one of the convicts in the case as a tactic to delay the execution.

The Supreme Court today rejected the claim of one of the four Nirbhaya case convicts that he was underage at the time of the incident, days before they are to be hanged on February 1. The court said an age claim rejected earlier, cannot be raised again.

The Supreme Court will today hear a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the death row convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, claiming that he was a juvenile at the time of crime, and the Delhi High Court had ignored this fact during the proceedings in the case.

The Bar Council of Delhi has issued a notice to advocate AP Singh, appearing for Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case convict Pawan Kumar Gupta, after the Delhi High Court last month directed it to take action against the lawyer for filing "forged" documents and not appearing for the hearing.

The Supreme Court will today decide whether the four men sentenced to death for raping and torturing a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, triggering nationwide protests, deserve mercy. The top court will announce its verdict on a review plea filed by three of the four convicts seeking reduction of their death sentence to ...

Among others in the top 10 are Bharti Airtel's Sunil Bharti Mittal (Rs 27.18 crore), Vinita Gupta, CEO of Lupin (Rs 24.86 crore), Hindalco MD D Bhattacharya (Rs 21.59 crore), TCS MD N Chandrasekaran (Rs 21.28 crore) and Ultratech Cement's Kumar Mangalam Birla (Rs 19.04 crore).

A Delhi court today adjourned extradited gangster Abu Salem's bail plea till November 7 after he failed to appear for hearing.

Two lawyers, representing death row convicts Mukesh and Pawan Kumar Gupta, today informed the Delhi High Court that they are withdrawing from the December 16 gang-rape case on the ground of alleged interference by family members of the convicts.

Nirbhaya's father today expressed hope that the convicts will be hanged this month, after President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four men facing the gallows in the case.

The Union Home Ministry has received the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four men facing the gallows in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, officials said on Monday.

Convicts Akshay Singh and Pawan Kumar Gupta on Saturday moved a Delhi court seeking a stay on the execution of death warrants, scheduled for March 3, in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. AP Singh, Pawan Kumar Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma, Akshay Kumar

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.

Amid outrage over the delay in hanging four people convicted in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Supreme Court has come out with guidelines to ensure that criminal appeals involving the death penalty are heard and settled at the earliest.

The Supreme Court Thursday appointed senior advocate Anjana Prakash to represent one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case who was unrepresented after dropping his earlier lawyer.

One of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case challenged the rejection of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Vinay Sharma's counsel, AP Singh, also sought the reduction of his punishment from death sentence to life imprisonment.

Asha Devi, mother of 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim, on Monday termed the petition by one of the convicts in the case as a tactic to delay the execution.

The Supreme Court today rejected the claim of one of the four Nirbhaya case convicts that he was underage at the time of the incident, days before they are to be hanged on February 1. The court said an age claim rejected earlier, cannot be raised again.

The Supreme Court will today hear a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the death row convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, claiming that he was a juvenile at the time of crime, and the Delhi High Court had ignored this fact during the proceedings in the case.

The Bar Council of Delhi has issued a notice to advocate AP Singh, appearing for Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case convict Pawan Kumar Gupta, after the Delhi High Court last month directed it to take action against the lawyer for filing "forged" documents and not appearing for the hearing.

The Supreme Court will today decide whether the four men sentenced to death for raping and torturing a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, triggering nationwide protests, deserve mercy. The top court will announce its verdict on a review plea filed by three of the four convicts seeking reduction of their death sentence to ...

Among others in the top 10 are Bharti Airtel's Sunil Bharti Mittal (Rs 27.18 crore), Vinita Gupta, CEO of Lupin (Rs 24.86 crore), Hindalco MD D Bhattacharya (Rs 21.59 crore), TCS MD N Chandrasekaran (Rs 21.28 crore) and Ultratech Cement's Kumar Mangalam Birla (Rs 19.04 crore).

A Delhi court today adjourned extradited gangster Abu Salem's bail plea till November 7 after he failed to appear for hearing.

Two lawyers, representing death row convicts Mukesh and Pawan Kumar Gupta, today informed the Delhi High Court that they are withdrawing from the December 16 gang-rape case on the ground of alleged interference by family members of the convicts.