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2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case: Convict Akshay Kumar Singh files second mercy petition ahead of his scheduled hanging on 20 March
•Officials at Tihar Jail, where the hanging is scheduled to take place, said Kumar filed the petition addressed to the President on Tuesday evening
2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case: Court reserves order on convict Mukesh Singh's plea seeking quashing of death penalty
•The plea claimed that Mukesh Singh was arrested from Rajasthan and brought to Delhi on 17 December, 2012, and he was not present in the city on 16 December, when the crime took place
2012 Delhi gangrape: President Ram Nath Kovind rejects mercy plea of death row convict Akshay Kumar Singh
•Kovind has already rejected the clemency petition of two other accused in the case Mukesh Singh and Vinay Kumar Sharma.
Supreme Court dismisses juvenility plea of 2012 gangrape convict Pawan Kumar Gupta, says Delhi HC 'rightly' rejected petition
Fp Staff •The apex court bench, headed by Justice R Banumathi, said the Delhi High Court "rightly rejected" Gupta's claim of being a juvenile at the time of the offence.
2012 Delhi gangrape case: SC to hear on 20 Jan convict Pawan Kumar Gupta's plea against HC order rejecting his juvenility claim
•The Supreme Court will hear on 20 January a plea of a death row convict in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case against a Delhi High Court order dismissing his claim of being a juvenile at the time of the commission of the offence
2012 Delhi gangrape victim's mother breaks down as court adjourns hearing on issuing death warrants of convicts
•Nirbhaya's mother broke down outside the Patiala House court on Wednesday after the court adjourned for 7 January the hearing on the issuance of death warrants against the four convicts in the Delhi gangrape-and-murder case
Supreme Court dismisses 2012 Delhi gangrape case convict's review plea, gives him three weeks to file mercy petition before president
•The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed the plea filed by one of the four convicts in the Jyoti Singh gang rape and murder case, seeking review of its 2017 judgement upholding his death penalty
2012 Delhi gang-rape: CJI SA Bobde recuses himself from hearing on convict's plea seeking review of death penalty
•The CJI said one of his relatives had earlier appeared on behalf of the victim's mother in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case and observed that it would be appropriate that some other bench hear the review plea at 10.30 am tomorrow.
2012 Delhi gangrape case: SC to hear review petition of Akshay Kumar Singh on 17 December; death row convict's plea cites 'Delhi pollution'
•The Supreme Court will hear on 17 December the plea filed by one of the four death-row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape-and-murder case seeking review of its 2017 judgement awarding him the death penalty
16 December gangrape convicts in 'depression', lawyers demand review
•The four convicts in the 16 December gangrape case are fighting "depression" since the confirmation of their death sentence by the Supreme Court, even as their lawyers are pinning hopes on review petitions to be filed in the court.