Tihar Jail Holds Dummy Hanging Of Nirbhaya Gang-Rape Convicts
The execution in their dying warrants has been deferred three times up to now.
New Delhi:
A dummy execution for the 4 Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts was once carried out at Delhi’s Tihar Jail through hangman Pawan.
The four convicts within the 2012 case — Mukesh Singh, Akshay Singh Thakur, Pawan Gupta, and Vinay Sharma — are scheduled to be hanged at five:30 am on March 20. The execution in their dying warrants has been deferred three times up to now because of delays brought about through the convicts seeking to exhaust all criminal therapies to be had to them.
The hangman is from Meerut.
A Delhi court docket on Tuesday brushed aside a petition filed through Mukesh Singh in search of quashing of the dying penalty claiming that he was once now not in Delhi when the crime was once dedicated.
On December 16, 2012, the younger girl who got here to be referred to as “Nirbhaya” was once gang-raped through six males on a transferring bus, tortured with an iron rod and thrown off the car. She died on December 29. Of the six males, one was once discovered placing in prison. The youngest, simply in need of 18 when the crime was once dedicated, was once launched after 3 years in a reform house.
