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2012 Delhi gangrape: President Ram Nath Kovind rejects mercy plea of death row convict Akshay Kumar Singh
•Kovind has already rejected the clemency petition of two other accused in the case Mukesh Singh and Vinay Kumar Sharma.
SC dismisses 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Mukesh Singh's appeal against rejection of mercy plea; fellow convict files curative petition challenging execution
Fp Staff •Also on Wednesday, Akshay Singh, another fellow convict in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case challenged his execution scheduled on 1 February by filing a curative plea, the last legal resort in the Supreme Court.
BJP accuses Delhi govt's 'negligence' for delaying hanging of 2012 gangrape case convicts, says AAP took more than 2 years to send notice
•The BJP on Thursday blamed AAP government's 'negligence' for the 'delay' in the hanging of Nirbhaya gangrape case convicts, saying it took more than two and a half years for the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation to give notice to convicts after Supreme Court rejected their appeal against the death sentence in 2017
Delhi HC dismisses 2012 gangrape convict Mukesh Singh's plea challenging death warrant; execution of all four can't happen on 22 Jan, says state govt
•A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said there is no error in trial court's 7 January order issuing death warrant against 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Mukesh Kumar Singh
'Execution of 2012 Delhi gangrape convicts can't take place on 22 Jan as mercy plea of one still pending': State tells high court
•Finding 'no merit' in the curative plea of the 2012 Delhi gangrape convicts, the Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the execution of all four on 22 January at 7 am in Delhi's Tihar Jail premises.
Hours after Supreme Court rejects curative petition, 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Mukesh Singh files mercy plea before President Kovind
Fp Staff •The 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder convict on Tuesday also approached the Delhi High Court for setting aside the death warrant issued by a trial court
2012 Delhi gangrape case: SC junks curative pleas of two death row convicts, paves way for execution of all four on 22 Jan
Fp Staff •The duo had moved a curative petition in the apex court after a Delhi court issued a death warrant in their name and announced 22 January as the date of their execution. Besides them, two other convicts named – Pawan Gupta and Akshay Singh are also slated to be executed on the same day.
2012 Delhi gangrape case: Supreme Court to hear curative pleas of two death row convicts today
•The four mean in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case were sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in the National Capital on the night of 16 December, 2012.
2012 Delhi gangrape case: Dummy execution of four death row convicts performed in Tihar Jail, say prison officials
•A dummy execution of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case was performed at Tihar Jail on Sunday, prison officials said
2012 Delhi gangrape case: After Vinay Sharma, fellow death row convict Mukesh Kumar files curative plea in SC against execution
•It said the Delhi court's judgment has relied on factors such as 'collective conscience of society' and 'public opinion' in deciding the sentence to be imposed on him and others.