NEW DELHI: It is criminally sinful to execute the condemned convicts when the law permits them to live, a Delhi court said on Friday while dismissing a plea of the Tihar Jail authorities for a new date and time of hanging for the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
In the light of Delhi high court’s direction granting the convicts a week’s time to exhaust their remaining legal remedies, the court called Tihar’s plea “premature”. “Admittedly, Delhi high court, by an order on F