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Delhi HC dismisses 2012 gangrape convict Mukesh Singh's plea challenging death warrant; execution of all four can't happen on 22 Jan, says state govt

A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said there is no error in trial court's 7 January order issuing death warrant against 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Mukesh Kumar Singh

'Execution of 2012 Delhi gangrape convicts can't take place on 22 Jan as mercy plea of one still pending': State tells high court

Finding 'no merit' in the curative plea of the 2012 Delhi gangrape convicts, the Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the execution of all four on 22 January at 7 am in Delhi's Tihar Jail premises.

Hours after Supreme Court rejects curative petition, 2012 Delhi gangrape convict Mukesh Singh files mercy plea before President Kovind

The 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder convict on Tuesday also approached the Delhi High Court for setting aside the death warrant issued by a trial court

2012 Delhi gangrape case: SC junks curative pleas of two death row convicts, paves way for execution of all four on 22 Jan

The duo had moved a curative petition in the apex court after a Delhi court issued a death warrant in their name and announced 22 January as the date of their execution. Besides them, two other convicts named – Pawan Gupta and Akshay Singh are also slated to be executed on the same day.

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Supreme Court to hear curative pleas of two death row convicts today

The four mean in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case were sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in the National Capital on the night of 16 December, 2012.

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Dummy execution of four death row convicts performed in Tihar Jail, say prison officials

A dummy execution of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case was performed at Tihar Jail on Sunday, prison officials said

2012 Delhi gangrape case: After Vinay Sharma, fellow death row convict Mukesh Kumar files curative plea in SC against execution

It said the Delhi court's judgment has relied on factors such as 'collective conscience of society' and 'public opinion' in deciding the sentence to be imposed on him and others.

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Vinay Sharma, one of four convicts, files curative plea in Supreme Court days before execution

In December 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was brutally raped and attacked in a moving bus in South Delhi by six men. The victim had boarded the nearly vacant bus in Munirka in South Delhi along with her male friend on her way back home on 16 December that year.

2012 Delhi gangrape convicts to be executed in Jail No 3 in Tihar prison complex; authorities likely to seek services of Meerut hangman on 22 Jan

The four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case will be executed in Jail No 3, a senior Tihar Jail official said, hours after a Delhi court issued death warrants against them and declared that they will be hanged at 7 am on 22 January

2012 Delhi gangrape case: 'My daughter has got justice,' says victim's mother; hope death warrant will act as deterrent, say politicos

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Asha Devi, the mother of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh, who was gang-raped in a moving bus in 2012, said that the death warrant to the four convicts in the case will strengthen people's trust in the judicial system