{"id":319569,"date":"2020-01-31T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319569"},"modified":"2020-01-31T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:41:35","slug":"nirbhaya-case-no-hanging-tomorrow-as-delhi-court-postpones-execution-till-further-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nirbhaya-case-no-hanging-tomorrow-as-delhi-court-postpones-execution-till-further-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirbhaya case: No hanging tomorrow as Delhi court postpones execution till further orders"},"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-319570 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nirbhaya-case.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/nirbhaya-case.jpg 691w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/nirbhaya-case-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/>A Delhi court on Friday postponed execution of death warrants of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case till further orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All four convicts- Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Kumar Gupta and Mukesh Singh were supposed to be hanged to death on February 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No new date for the execution of all four men has been issued yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tihar jail authorities challenged the application and told the court that only one convict&#8217;s mercy plea is pending, and the others can be hanged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The convicts&#8217; lawyer disagreed with Tihar jail authorities and said rules dictate that when one convict&#8217;s plea is pending the others cannot be hanged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The original date of execution was January 22 but due to mercy petition filed by Mukesh Singh, a Delhi court set a new date, February 1 at 6 am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All four men were convicted and sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old paramedic student in a moving bus in the national capital on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012.<\/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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court on Friday postponed execution of death warrants of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case till further orders. All four convicts- Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Kumar Gupta and Mukesh Singh were supposed to be hanged to death on February 1. No new date for the execution of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[3394,3177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319569"}],"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=319569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319571,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319569\/revisions\/319571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}