Nirbhaya case: SC to hear today Centre's plea on separate hangings
The
Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a petition, filed by the Ministry
of Home Affairs (MHA), seeking a direction to execute the death row
convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya
gang-rape and murder case
separately.
A
three-judge bench, headed by Justice R Banumathi and also comprising
Justices Ashok Bhushan and Navin Sinha, will hear the plea today.The Centre moved the apex court after the Delhi High Court had rejected its petition.
Delhi High Court had on February 5, stated that that death warrant of all convicts in the Nirbhaya case should be executed together.
The High Court had observed that Delhi prison rules do not state whether when the mercy petition of one convict is pending, the execution of the other convicts can take place and from the trial court to Supreme Court all convicts have been held by a common order and a common judgment. Read More
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