Avail of all options in one week: Delhi HC to Nirbhaya convicts

NEW DELHI: Putting a lid on delaying tactics by the Nirbhaya death row convicts, Delhi high court on Wednesday gave them seven days to avail their remaining legal remedies while asserting that all four must hang together.

The court dismissed the Centre’s plea to allow separate hanging of the four convicts, observing that no matter what stage of the case, all procedures “must be fair, just and reasonable”. Meanwhile, President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected the mercy petition of one of the convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, who had filed the plea last week. The HC order means that Pawan Gupta, the only Nirbhaya convict who hasn’t filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court or a mercy plea with the President, now has a week’s time to ex