Nirbhaya Convicts

Time To Introspect On Convicts' Manipulating, Delaying Tactics: Law Minister On Nirbhaya Case

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday March 20, 2020

Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Friday was a "day of satisfaction" with Nirbhaya "getting justice", but it is also time to introspect whether death-row convicts could be allowed to "manipulate" the system to delay execution.

Missing Hubcap, Colour Of Bus Helped Cops Trace Nirbhaya's Killers

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday March 20, 2020

A missing hubcap on a wheel and a white bus - these were the clues that led the police to zero in on the vehicle in which a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was gang-raped in Delhi on December 16, 2012.

"Justice Has Prevailed": PM Modi After Nirbhaya Convicts' Hanging

India News | Edited by Shylaja Varma | Friday March 20, 2020

"Justice has prevailed," Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted after the hanging of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya caseon Friday morning, over seven years after the young medical student - who came to be known as "Nirbhaya" or fearless - was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi.

Resolve To Not Allow Nirbhaya-Like Incident Again: Arvind Kejriwal After Convicts' Hanging

India News | NDTV News Desk | Friday March 20, 2020

Hours after the four Nirbhaya convicts were hanged, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said it is a day to take a resolution to not allow another Nirbhaya-like incident to happen.

Nirbhaya Convicts Refused Last Meal, Hardly Slept, Didn't Bathe

India News | Reported by Mukesh Singh Sengar, Edited by Shylaja Varma | Friday March 20, 2020

The four convicts in the Nirbhaya case spent a restless night at Delhi's Tihar Jail before their hanging before dawn today. Their last few hours were spent in isolation, in separate cells at Jail 3, jail officials said.

"I Hugged Her Photo": Nirbhaya's Mother On Rapists' Hanging

India News | Reported by Sukirti Dwivedi, Saurabh Shukla; Edited by Shylaja Varma | Friday March 20, 2020

Our wait for justice was painful and agonising but we finally got it, Asha Devi, the mother of Nirbhaya said minutes after four of her daughter's rapists and killers were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail this morning, over seven years after the young medical student was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in the capital.

Nirbhaya Case Updates: "Our Nari Shakti Has Excelled In Every Field": PM On Nirbhaya Verdict

India News | Edited by Sumana Nandy | Friday March 20, 2020

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...

Nirbhaya Convicts To Be Executed At 5:30 am, Top Court Rejects Petition

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Friday March 20, 2020

A little more than two hour to go for the execution, a three-judge bench took up a last desperate appeal from three men convicted for the horrifying gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi, dubbed Nirbhaya, more than seven years ago.

Hanging Tomorrow, Top Court Turns Down Nirbhaya Convicts' Plea For Time

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Thursday March 19, 2020

Petitions by all three convicts in the Nirbhaya case -- who made a last-minute appeal for a freeze on tomorrow's execution -- have been dismissed by the Supreme Court. The judges turned down their lawyers' plea to "send them to Indo-Pak border or Doklam" and not hang them.

They Deserve It: Ex-High Court Judges On Death Penalty To Nirbhaya Convicts

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday March 19, 2020

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.

4 Nirbhaya Convicts To Hang Tomorrow, Delhi Court Rejects Petitions

India News | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday March 19, 2020

All four men convicted of the gang-rape and killing of a young Delhi woman in 2012 will hang tomorrow morning as decided, a Delhi court said today. The Patiala House Court rejected all petitions of the convicts, Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32, who are to hang at 5.30 am on Friday.

Nirbhaya Convict's Wife Threatens Suicide Day Before Hanging

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Thursday March 19, 2020

Barely 24 hours before the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case are to be executed, a drama played out outside Delhi's Patiala House court today as the wife of one of the convicts threatened to kill herself. Akshay Singh and three others, found guilty of the horrific rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student eight years ago, will be hanged...

No Legal Remedies Of Nirbhaya Convicts Pending, Court Told

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday March 19, 2020

A Delhi court was on Thursday told that no legal remedies of any of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case were pending in any of the courts.

"Hanging Nirbhaya Convicts Won't Bring Justice": Ex-Judge Kurian Joseph

India News | Edited by Draksha Sharma (With inputs from ANI) | Thursday March 19, 2020

The hanging of the four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape of Nirbhaya will not bring justice to her parents, former Supreme Court judge Kurian Joseph said on Wednesday, two days before their scheduled execution. Justice Joseph questioned whether such crimes would stop with this hanging.

Delhi Court Pulls Up Nirbhaya Convicts' Lawyer Over "Last Hour Approach"

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday March 18, 2020

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.