Nirbhaya Case: Four convicts to be hanged on March 20

The four convicts of the Nirbhaya gang rape case will be hanged on March 20th at 5.30 am, a Delhi court has said.

Yesterday, the Delhi government moved a city court seeking a fresh date for the execution of four convicts, saying their all legal remedies are exhausted.

President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the last mercy plea, filed by Pawan Gupta.


The trial court had on February 17 issued a fresh date, March 3 at 6 am, for the execution of death warrants for the four convicts -- Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) -- in the case.

The execution of their death warrants has been deferred thrice so far due to delays by them in exhausting legal remedies. All the convicts in the case are to be hanged together.

The President had already rejected the mercy petitions of Mukesh, Vinay and Akshay.

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

Six people, including the four convicts and a juvenile, were named as accused. Ram Singh, the sixth accused, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar jail days after the trial began in the case.

The juvenile was released in 2015 after spending three years in a correctional home.