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Nirbhaya case victim’s mom along with lawyers in New Delhi, on January 7, 2020.|Picture Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma
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The 2018 Guidelines does not prohibit the execution of death sentence of co-convicts, one by one, on the rejection of their respective mercy petitions.
The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted hear on Friday the Centre’s appeal challenging the Delhi High Court’s verdict dismissing its plea against the remain on the execution of the 4 death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
Additional Lawyer General K.M. Natraj, appearing for the Centre, mentioned the matter for immediate listing prior to a bench comprising justices N.V. Ramana, Sanjiv Khanna and Krishna Murari.
Mr. Natraj told the court that the prison authorities were not able to carry out the convicts in the case regardless of the fact that their review petitions had been dismissed and curative petitions and mercy pleas of thr