New Delhi, Mar 19 (PTI) A Delhi court on Thursday reserved order on plea of three of the four death row convicts Akshay Kumar, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma, seeking stay on their death penalty, saying the second mercy plea of one of them was still pending.
The convicts had moved court on Wednesday.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana was informed by the public prosecutor that second mercy pleas of two convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh and Pawan Gupta, were not entertained and were rejected on the ground that the first one was entertained and considered on merit.
He told the court that advocate A P Singh, counsel for the convicts, was giving false information stating second mercy plea of Pawan Gupta was pending and said that all the convict have exhausted their legal remedies.
Singh also said that convict Akshay''s wife has filed for a divorce in a city court in Bihar which was pending, to which the special public prosecutor said any other petition does not fall under the purview of legal remedy in the present case.
On March 5, a trial court had issued fresh death warrants for March 20 at 5.30 am, as the date for the execution of convicts Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31).
Source: PTI, Staff, March 19, 2020
Nirbhaya Convict's Wife Threatens Suicide Day Before Hanging
New Delhi: Barely 24 hours before the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case are to be executed, a drama played out outside Delhi's Patiala House court today as the wife of one of the convicts threatened to kill herself.
Akshay Singh and three others, found guilty of the (...) rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student eight years ago, will be hanged tomorrow.
The convicts have used every [available means] to delay the execution, taking it in turns to file repeated petitions.
Another plea was to be heard by the court today - filed by three of the convicts two days ago.
Outside the court that was to hear the case, Punita Devi, the wife of Akshay Singh, was found sitting this morning, her child beside her. The woman appeared to have a nervous breakdown and fainted.
After regaining consciousness, she started beating herself with a slipper, saying, "I don't want to live. I will kill myself."
The woman has filed for divorce in a local court in Bihar, contending that she does not wish to be a widow of a man who was hanged.
In the divorce plea, she asserted that her husband was innocent. "My husband is innocent. I want to be legally divorced before he is hanged," she said in her petition.
During today's hearing, the court was told that all four convicts have exhausted all legal options available to them.
Source:
ndtv.com, Staff, March 19, 2020
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