Delhi gang rape convicts (clockwise from left) Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Vinay and Pawan Gupta. File.|Picture Credit: PTI
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It also declines to set aside trial court order that postponed convicts’ hanging till additional orders.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday declined the Union federal government’s plea to individually carry out the death row convicts in the December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. It likewise declined to reserve the high court order, which had deferred the hanging of the convicts till further orders. It stated the convicts can not be hanged independently since they were founded guilty for the exact same crime.
Justice Suresh Kait, however, provided convicts Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Kumar Gupta (25), Vi