Reportedly a delhi court said on tuesday four convicts in the sensational 2012 Nirbhaya Gang rape and murder case will be hanged on january 22 at 7 am in Tihar jail. Meanwhile the order was pronounced by Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora who issued the death warrants against the four death row convicts mukesh (32), pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and akshay kumar Singh (31). Furthermore during the hearing, the prosecution said there was no application pending before any court or the President right now by any of the convicts and the review petition of all the convicts was dismissed by the supreme Court.
Meanwhile urging the court to issue the death warrants, the prosecution said, "In between issuance and execution of death warrants of the convicts want to file curative petitions they can do so."Moreover the counsel for two of the convicts mukesh and Vinay said they were in the process of filing curative petition in the supreme Court. Perhaps the trial court had earlier directed tihar jail authorities to seek within a week response from the four death row convicts as to whether they were filing mercy pleas against their executions with the President of india and apparently it was hearing the applications moved by Nirbhaya's parents and the prosecution (Delhi government) seeking issuance of death warrant against the convict.
Moreover the supreme court on december 18 had dismissed the plea of akshay seeking review of its decision, saying review petition is not "re-hearing of appeal over and over again" and it had already considered the mitigating and aggravating circumstances while upholding the death penalty.
