The Delhi government on Wednesday moved a city court seeking fresh date for the execution of four Nirbhaya case convicts.
President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta , one of the four men facing the gallows in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, a Home Ministry official said earlier in the day.
The trial court had on February 17 issued fresh date for execution of death warrants for March 3 at 6 am for the four convicts — Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) — in the case.
The matter is likely to be taken up for hearing shortly by Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana.
The President has already rejected the mercy petitions of Mukesh , Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh .
On December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as Nirbhaya (fearless), was gang raped and savagely assaulted in a moving bus in South Delhi. She died after a fortnight .