Nirbhaya Case: All Four Convicts To Be Hanged Tomorrow 5:30AM

New Delhi: The Delhi Patiala House Court on Thursday, dismissed a petition filed by death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya case 2012, seeking a stay on their execution on Friday. The Supreme Court had earlier dismissed a curative petition filed by convict Pawan Gupta claiming that he was a juvenile at the time the crime was committed.

All four convicts, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta will be hanged on Friday morning at 5:30 am in the Tihar jail premises. The Patiala House court on March 5, issued death warrants or black warrants for all the four convicts to be hanged on March 20 at 5.30 am. It may be recalled that the death warrants had been deferred on three previous occasions.

The Tihar Jail authorities have already conducted a dummy hanging. Jallad Pawan conducted the dummy execution of the four death row convicts at Tihar Jail on Wednesday.

Pawan, who hails from Meerut in UP, also tested the ropes which would be used to carry out the hanging.

Nirbhaya, the name used for the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who was brutally gang-raped and assaulted in a moving bus in South Delhi on December 16, 2012, died after two weeks.

Six people were arrested in the case including the four death row convicts. There were two others—Ram Singh who allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail and a juvenile who was released in 2015 after he completed his sentence of three years in a correctional home.