Delhi gang rape convicts Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta (face covered), Vinay and Mukesh Singh (R) being required to the High Court in New Delhi on September 24, 2013.|Picture Credit:
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President Ram Nath Kovind declines grace petition of one of the convict Pawan Kumar Gupta.
The Delhi federal government on Wednesday moved a city court seeking fresh date for the execution of 4 Nirbhaya case convicts.
President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four males dealing with the gallows in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, a House Ministry official stated earlier in the day.
The high court had on February 17 provided fresh date for execution of death warrants for March 3 at 6 am for the 4 convicts– Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31)– in the