The Supreme Court on March 5 made it clear that any delay in the set up execution of death sentence of the four Nirbhaya gang-rape case convicts on March 20 will see the court itself step in on March 23 to quickly choose the government’s appeal for approval to independently hang them to death.
The guarantee from a three-judge Bench led by Justice R. Banumathi came while attending to the government’s apprehension that possibilities are high that one or other of the four convicts may turn up in court prior to March 20 with a brand-new plea and additional hold-up the execution.
” I am no astrologist … however they [convicts] will discover something to delay the March 20 execution … I am not in a rush to execute them, however the system is suffering when the punishment keeps getting held off. The convicts have been taking the system for a flight … Even now, it has actually been over 2 years considering that their evaluation petitions were dismissed by the Supreme Court,” Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta submitted.
At this juncture, Justice Banumathi turned to the convicts’ legal representatives to come prepared on March 23 as the court would not captivate any ask for adjournment. The court would take a look at the government’s appeal to hang them separately even if it i