The four men convicted within the rape and killing of a 23-year-old student in Delhi in 2012 won't be hanged tomorrow as scheduled, a judge in Delhi said on Monday, deferring their execution for the third time.
The mercy petition of 1 of the convicts, Pawan Gupta, is pending with President Ram Nath Kovind, in order that they haven't exhausted all their legal options, the judge ruled.
"The condemned convict must not meet his creator with a grievance in his bosom that the courts of this country haven't acted fairly in granting him a chance to exhaust his legal remedies," said the Patiala House court in Delhi.
For weeks, Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32, are filing staggered petitions challenging their death sentence in an endeavor to stall the execution.
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The four men and two others, including one just wanting 18, were arrested after the 2012 gang rape of a missy on a moving bus. one among the most accused, Ram Singh, was found hanging in his room in 2013. the teenager was released after three years in a very reform home.
On December 16, 2012, the student, who came to be called "Nirbhaya", was on her way back from a movie with a disciple when she was lured onto a bus. Nirbhaya case She was assaulted and tortured so brutally that she died days later, triggering an unprecedented outpouring of public anger over crimes against women.
"She was savagely raped and thrown on the streets. Her intestines were ripped out. and each one these courts are sitting and watching a tamasha," Nirbhaya's distraught mother said outside the court.
Seema Kushwaha, the prosecution lawyer said, "Can't the court understand the manipulation of law? Our system is totally rotten. It takes years to induce justice. we've got to mend it together."
Last month, the central government approached the Supreme Court for a change in laws that it said were skewed in favour of criminals.
As the convicts filed petition after petition, timing them carefully to shop for some reprieve, Pawan Gupta apparently waited till the tip to create his move.
After his curative petition was rejected by the Supreme Court this morning, he filed a mercy petition before the President and went back to the Delhi court requesting his execution to be shelve.
"You are fidgeting with fire, you must use caution," said the judge to Pawan's lawyer.
The hanging had been deferred twice before, on January 22 and February 1. On February 5, the Delhi supreme court ordered that every one four would have per week to exhaust all their legal remedies, including mercy petitions to the President, and said they can not be hanged separately
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