{"id":306955,"date":"2018-12-13T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T09:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306955"},"modified":"2018-12-13T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T09:37:19","slug":"nirbhaya-case-sc-dismisses-plea-seeking-immediate-execution-of-4-convicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nirbhaya-case-sc-dismisses-plea-seeking-immediate-execution-of-4-convicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirbhaya case: SC dismisses plea seeking immediate execution of 4 convicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on December 13 has dismissed the petition filed by lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava, seeking directions to the Centre for the immediate execution of the four convicts&#8211; Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay and Akshay &#8212; in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An SC Bench headed by Justice Madan Bhimrao Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta, after noting that the petition is devoid of merits, dismissed the petition of Srivastava, stating, &#8220;What kind of prayers you have? Dismiss.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cYou are making the court a joke,\u201d the Bench added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2012, the 23-year-old paramedic student was gang-raped on the intervening night of December 16-17, inside a running bus in South Delhi by six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The victim died on December 29, 2012, at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Nirbhaya incident led to a huge public outcry, prompting the government to overhaul anti-rape laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on December 13 has dismissed the petition filed by lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava, seeking directions to the Centre for the immediate execution of the four convicts&#8211; Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay and Akshay &#8212; in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. An SC Bench headed by Justice Madan Bhimrao Lokur and Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10265,10216,10266,3177,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306956,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306955\/revisions\/306956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}