A Delhi court set March 20 as the date for executing the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya case
NEW DELHI: A city court on Thursday set March 20 as the date for executing the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. The court noted there was no legal bar, but rather an obligation to set the date.
The latest ruling follows three postponements of the hanging in six weeks and adds a sense of finality in a sensational case in which the four had received the death sentence way back in 2013.
“Death warrants issued by this court with respect to condemned convicts Mukesh, Pawan, Akshay and Vinay shall now be carried into effect by hanging the convicts by the neck until they are dead on March 20 at 5.30 am,” said additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana.
Special prosecutor Irfan Ahmed, who on Wednesday moved a plea seeking setting t