{"id":58638,"date":"2020-01-23T14:56:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T09:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=58638"},"modified":"2020-01-23T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T09:26:55","slug":"centre-moves-sc-seeking-7-day-deadline-for-hanging-death-row-convicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/centre-moves-sc-seeking-7-day-deadline-for-hanging-death-row-convicts","title":{"rendered":"Centre moves SC seeking 7-day deadline for hanging death row convicts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court for fixing a seven-day deadline for executing death penalty of condemned prisoners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Nirbhaya-gangrape.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58024\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/nirbhaya-gangrape-delhi-court-admits-parents-plea-seeking-transfer-of-case-to-another-judge\/nirbhaya-gangrape\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Nirbhaya-gangrape.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nirbhaya gangrape\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Nirbhaya-gangrape.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Nirbhaya-gangrape.jpg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Nirbhaya-gangrape.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Nirbhaya-gangrape.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The plea of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) assumes significance in view of the the death row convicts in the sensational Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case of 2012 filing review, curative and mercy petitions, which has delayed their hanging.<\/p>\n<p>The MHA&#8217;s plea sought a direction from the top court in fixing the deadline for filing of curative pleas after the rejection of review petitions.<\/p>\n<p>It also sought a direction that &#8220;if the convict of death sentence wants to file mercy petition, it would be mandatory for a convict of death sentence to do so only within a period of seven days from the date of receipt of death warrant issued by the competent court&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The MHA submitted that the top court should &#8220;mandate all the competent courts, state governments, prison authorities in the country to issue death warrant of a convict within seven days of the rejection of his mercy petition and to execute death sentence within seven days thereafter irrespective of the stage of review petition\/curative petition\/mercy petition of his co-convicts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The top court, on January 20, had rejected the plea of a death row convict in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case challenging the Delhi High Court order which had dismissed his claim of being a juvenile at the time of offence saying he cannot re-agitate the issue by filing fresh application.<\/p>\n<p>A Delhi court has recently issued fresh death warrants for February 1 against the four convicts &#8212; Vinay Sharma (26), Akshay Kumar Singh (31), Mukesh Kumar Singh (32) and Pawan (26) &#8212; in the case after their hanging got delayed from January 22 due to pending petitions.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old paramedic student, referred to as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, in a moving bus in south Delhi by six people before she was thrown out on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court for fixing a seven-day deadline for executing death penalty of condemned prisoners. 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