4 Nirbhaya Rapists to Hang on March on March 20, Says Court

New Delhi, March 5, 2020:

The fourth execution date of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case has been fixed as March 20.

The trial court has fixed the morning hours of March 20 for the punishment of the ones who were responsible for one of the most heinous crimes in the country in recent memory.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the bench headed by Justice R Banumathi that the trial court has fixed the date of March 20 for the execution of the four convicts who had exhausted all their legal remedies.

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Mehta reiterated the opinion of the mass that the four convicts -- Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh(31) made a mockery of the system by their delaying tactics and taken it for a ride.

However, a Supreme Court bench said it would hear the matter on merits on March 23 and made it clear that no adjournments will be granted.

It needs mention here that the execution of their death warrants had been deferred thrice so far due to delays by them in exhausting legal remedies.

A 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who later came to be known as ‘Nirbhaya’ (fearless), was gang raped and savagely assaulted in a moving bus in South Delhi on December 16, 2012. She had died after a fortnight.

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