{"id":318928,"date":"2020-01-15T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318928"},"modified":"2020-01-15T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:25:08","slug":"nirbhaya-convicts-will-not-be-hanged-on-january-22-as-mercy-plea-filed-delhi-govt-to-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nirbhaya-convicts-will-not-be-hanged-on-january-22-as-mercy-plea-filed-delhi-govt-to-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirbhaya convicts will not be hanged on January 22 as mercy plea filed: Delhi govt to HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318929 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/law-hang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/law-hang.jpg 562w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/law-hang-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/>The Delhi government on Wednesday said that the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya case will not be executed on January 22 as a mercy petition has been filed by one of them with the President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The four convicts &#8212; Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Akshay Kumar Singh and Pawan Gupta are to be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar jail, a Delhi court had\u00a0issued their death warrants\u00a0last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The authorities said under the rules, it would have to wait for the mercy plea to be decided by the President before executing the death warrant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">None of the four convicts can be executed on January 22 at 7am unless the mercy plea is decided, the court was told.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court had on Tuesday rejected curative petitions filed by Mukesh Singh and Vinay Sharma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 23-year-old paramedic student was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 in a moving bus in the national capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She passed away at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore while undergoing the treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi government on Wednesday said that the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya case will not be executed on January 22 as a mercy petition has been filed by one of them with the President. The four convicts &#8212; Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Akshay Kumar Singh and Pawan Gupta are to be hanged on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[2215,3177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318928"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318930,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318928\/revisions\/318930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}