{"id":319742,"date":"2020-02-07T12:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T12:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319742"},"modified":"2020-02-07T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T12:17:39","slug":"nirbhaya-case-patiala-house-court-refuses-to-issue-new-death-warrants-rejects-tihar-jails-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nirbhaya-case-patiala-house-court-refuses-to-issue-new-death-warrants-rejects-tihar-jails-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirbhaya Case: Patiala House Court refuses to issue new death warrant, rejects Tihar Jail\u2019s plea"},"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 dismissed a plea filed by Tihar jail authorities&#8217; seeking fresh date for execution of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On February 5, the Delhi High Court gave the four convicts weeks\u2019 time to exercise the legal rights available to them, after which the authorities should act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Citing the HC&#8217;s order, Justice Rana took note of the HC\u2019s order permitting the convicts to exercise their legal remedies within 7 days\u2019 time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is criminally sinful to execute the convicts when the law permits them to live,&#8221; Court observed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On January 31, the trial court had stayed till further orders execution of the four convicts in the case Mukesh Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Akshay Thakur \u2014 who are lodged in Tihar Jail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court on Friday dismissed a plea filed by Tihar jail authorities&#8217; seeking fresh date for execution of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. On February 5, the Delhi High Court gave the four convicts weeks\u2019 time to exercise the legal rights available to them, after which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3177,2052,6477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319742"}],"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=319742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319744,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319742\/revisions\/319744"}],"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=319742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}