Nirbhaya Case: Convicts To Hang On March 20

New Delhi: The Patiala House Court pronounced its judgement that two weeks from now all the four death row convicts in the horrific Nirbhaya case 2012 will be hanged on March 20 at 5.30 am. The trial court has set the fresh and final execution date after the death row convicts exhausted all their legal options.

The court has issued death warrants or black warrants for the rapists accused in the gruesome Nirbhaya 2012 case. Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay and Pawan Gupta will be hanged on March 20 as per the Court order. The death row convicts had exhausted all the legal options available to them.

AP Singh, the lawyer of the four death row convicts, addressed the media and said that the trial court issued the death warrant under media pressure. He remarked that the execution is a judicial killing. He pointed out that Akshay Singh still has a legal option open to him. AP Singh also claimed that he was being threatened and harassed for representing the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case.

The death row convicts have been accused of exploiting various legal loopholes to delay the inevitable. Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay and Pawan Gupta along with two others were accused in the brutal gangrape and murder of Nirbhaya in December 2012. While one of the six committed suicide in prison, the other served three years in a correctional home since he was a juvenile at the time of the commission of the crime. He was subsequently released. Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay and Pawan Gupta were sentenced to death.

In the forthcoming two weeks, the death row convicts will have the time to come to terms with their execution and meet their families. The March 20 execution date also fulfils the statutory 14 days requirement from the pronouncement of the verdict and execution.