The Delhi High Court on Wednesday will deliver its judgement on the plea filed by the Centre challenging a trial court's order staying the death warrants issued against all four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case. The Delhi court on Friday stayed till further orders the hanging of three Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case death row convicts, that was scheduled for February 1. While staying the execution, the Delhi court observed, "The Courts of this country cannot afford to adversely discriminate any convict, including death row convict, in pursuit of his legal remedies, by turning Nelson's eye towards him." The three convicts - Akshay Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, and Vinay Kumar Sharma - had moved the court seeking a stay on their hanging. The four convicts were scheduled to be hanged at 6 AM on February 1 after a Delhi court issued death warrants against them earlier in January.

Source: dna February 05, 2020 08:48 UTC