{"id":319691,"date":"2020-02-05T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T10:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319691"},"modified":"2020-02-05T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:05:38","slug":"delhi-high-court-gives-weeks-time-to-nirbhaya-convicts-to-exhaust-legal-options-against-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-high-court-gives-weeks-time-to-nirbhaya-convicts-to-exhaust-legal-options-against-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi High Court gives weeks\u2019 time to Nirbhaya convicts to exhaust legal options against execution"},"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\" \/>The convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case will get one week to exercise all their legal remedies, after which the authorities should act, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court dismissed the Centre&#8217;s plea challenging the trial court&#8217;s order staying the execution of the convicts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;All the convicts have to be executed together, and not separately,&#8221; said Justice Suresh Kait, who was hearing the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On January 31, the Centre and the Delhi government had challenged the trial court&#8217;s order staying &#8220;till further orders&#8221; the execution of all the four convicts in the case who are lodged in Tihar Jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case will get one week to exercise all their legal remedies, after which the authorities should act, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday. \u00a0 The court dismissed the Centre&#8217;s plea challenging the trial court&#8217;s order staying the execution of the convicts. &#8220;All the convicts have [&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":[1594,3177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319691"}],"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=319691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319693,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319691\/revisions\/319693"}],"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=319691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}