{"id":320709,"date":"2020-03-04T10:45:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T10:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320709"},"modified":"2020-03-04T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T10:45:02","slug":"president-kovind-rejects-mercy-plea-of-nirbhaya-convict-pawan-gupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-rejects-mercy-plea-of-nirbhaya-convict-pawan-gupta\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind rejects mercy plea of Nirbhaya convict Pawan Gupta"},"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-304676 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/kovind.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind.jpg 434w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind-356x364.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind-410x420.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/>President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday rejected the mercy plea of Pawan Gupta, one of the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday Gupta had filed a mercy plea before the President after the Supreme Court dismissed his curative petition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was the only one out of the four convicts to not have exhausted all the legal options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, a Delhi court stayed the execution of the four Nirbhaya convicts and deferred the matter for further orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All the four convicts- Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were scheduled to be hanged at 6 am on March 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court deferred the matter as the mercy petition of Gupta was pending before the President.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday rejected the mercy plea of Pawan Gupta, one of the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case. On Monday Gupta had filed a mercy plea before the President after the Supreme Court dismissed his curative petition. He was the only one out of the four convicts to not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3177,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320709"}],"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=320709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320710,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320709\/revisions\/320710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}