Hearing is going on in Supreme Court in Nirbhaya case. During the hearing, Justice Bhushan asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta when your chart shows that three mercy petitions have been dismissed and convict Pawan Gupta has not yet filed the mercy petition. Why is the petition given for issuing a new death warrant?

The Supreme Court granted exemption to the trial court for issuing a new death warrant to the Tihar Jail Authority after the expiry of the 1-week deadline given to Nirbhaya's convicts in the hearing to pursue a legal alternative. Also, the court has issued a notice to the four convicts on the plea of ​​the central government.

Now on February 13, the Supreme Court will hear the petition filed by the Central Government and Delhi Government in the case of hanging Nirbhaya convicts.

During the hearing, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the convicts on the plea of ​​the Center and Delhi government against the Delhi High Court's order to hang the four convicts of Nirbhaya together, although the court made it clear that this petition is pending, the trial Death warrants from the court will not be affected.

At the same time, defense counsel AP AP Singh said that convict Vinay Sharma has filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court challenging the mercy petition rejected by the President of India.

In the last hearing (February 7), the court issued notice to the four convicts of Nirbhaya (Akshay Singh Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Pawan Kumar Gupta) separately. While issuing this notice, the court said that the Delhi High Court's one-week time expires on February 11, in which case 11 faravaro will be heard. Explain that the Delhi High Court had asked all the convicts to use all their legal options within a week.

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In the last hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Central Government, had said that the patience of the people of the country is being tried. He said with arguments whether the administration could be asked to do away with the option of all the couples when convict Pawan has not filed any plea after the revision petition was dismissed in 2018.

Earlier, the Delhi High Court rejected the plea of ​​Delhi and the Central Government, in which the four convicts were appealed to be hanged separately. After this, the Central Government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court and appealed to hear it.

The High Court had cited Delhi prison manual stating that all the culprits would be hanged together and not separately. According to the rules, there is a provision to hang all the culprits at the same time.

The Central Government is arguing that Nirbhaya's execution of all the four convicts has used all his legal and constitutional measures.

Significantly, on December 16, 2012, Nirbhaya, Ram Singh (had committed suicide in Tihar Jail), a Nabagig (it has completed his three-year sentence), Mukesh Singh, Akshay Singh, Vinay in Delhi's Vasant Vihar area. Kumar Sharma and Pawan Kumar Gupta pleaded guilty. All the six criminals not only gang-raped Nirbhaya but also tortured her so much that she died in hospital during treatment. After this, the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court have sentenced the four convicts (Pawan, Vinay, Akshay and Mukesh) to be hanged after the trial court.