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2012 gangrape case: Delhi court stays execution of convicts until further orders; victim's mother says defence lawyer mocked her over delay
Fp Staff •The scheduled execution of the convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case was deferred till further orders by a Delhi court on Friday. Additional Sessions judge Dharmender Rana at the Patiala House court complex passed the order on a plea by one of the convicts seeking a stay on their execution scheduled for 1 February.
2012 Delhi gangrape: SC rejects curative plea of death row convict Akshay Singh; application seeking stay on execution also dismissed
•Akshay now has the option to move a mercy plea before the President. He was the third convict in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case to move the curative plea after Mukesh Kumar Singh and Vinay Kumar Sharma.
Lawyer of 2012 Delhi gangrape death row convicts files plea seeking stay on 1 Feb executions, claims all four can't be hanged till legal remedies run out
Fp Staff •Also on Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear the curative petition of another convict in the Delhi gangrape case, Akshay Thakur, who is seeking commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.
2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case: Supreme Court set to hear curative petition of death row convict Akshay Thakur today
•The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear the curative petition of one of the four 2012 Delhi gang-rape death row convicts, Akshay Thakur who is seeking commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.
2012 Delhi gangrape case: SC begins hearing convict Mukesh Singh's plea against rejection of mercy petition
•The mentioning officer considered the urgency of 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Mukesh Singh's plea and ordered its listing before a three-judge bench comprising Justices R Bhanunathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna at 12.30 pm on Tuesday.
'Execution case will be given top priority,' SC says after 2012 Delhi gangrape convict seeks urgent hearing against rejection of mercy plea by President
•Death row convict in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case Mukesh Kumar Singh moved the Supreme Court on Monday seeking urgent hearing on his plea against dismissal of his mercy petition by the President
From slow poisoning claims, to allegation of impeding mercy petition, convicts of Delhi gangrape case make bizarre claims; court refuses to intervene
•A Delhi court said no further directions were required on a plea by the lawyer of the death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case alleging the prison authorities were not handing over certain documents required to file mercy and curative petitions and disposed of the petition.
Centre moves SC seeking seven-day deadline for execution of death row convicts after issuance of death warrant
•The MHA also sought direction from the court that a time period be fixed for such death row convicts for filing curative pleas after rejection of their review pleas
Supreme Court dismisses juvenility plea of 2012 gangrape convict Pawan Kumar Gupta, says Delhi HC 'rightly' rejected petition
Fp Staff •The apex court bench, headed by Justice R Banumathi, said the Delhi High Court "rightly rejected" Gupta's claim of being a juvenile at the time of the offence.
2012 Delhi gangrape case: SC to hear on 20 Jan convict Pawan Kumar Gupta's plea against HC order rejecting his juvenility claim
•The Supreme Court will hear on 20 January a plea of a death row convict in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case against a Delhi High Court order dismissing his claim of being a juvenile at the time of the commission of the offence