He was the only convict among the four who had not exhausted his legal remedies of filing a curative petition and subsequent mercy plea wit...

When the counsel for petitioner -- Justice (Retd) Michael F Saldanna, former judge of the Bombay High Court -- continued with the submissio...

The appeal filed by the Centre and the Delhi government came up for hearing before a bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and Navin...

The Patiala House Court on Monday issued fresh death warrants against four convicts while hearing a petition by the state and Nirbhaya's pa...

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case convict Vinay Sharma's plea challenging rejection of his mercy pet...

A Delhi court on Wednesday offered Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, legal aid aft...

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the high court that there is a "deliberate, calculated and well thought of design" by the Nirbhaya gang...

Mehta told Justice Suresh Kait that convict Pawan Gupta's move of not filing curative or mercy petition is deliberate, calculated inaction.

It also sought a direction that "if the convict of death sentence wants to file mercy petition, it would be mandatory for a convict of deat...

The court was hearing a plea by one of the four death row convicts in the case, Mukesh Kumar Singh, seeking postponement of the date of his...

Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, has filed a mercy petition which was forwar...

There are over 50 countries that still allow capital punishment and gruesome crimes such as the Nirbhaya gang rape-and-murder case serve as...

Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora Friday deferred the matter till December 18, noting that the review petition of one of the con...

A bench of Chief Justices Dipak Misra and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan posted the review plea for December 12 when their lawyer w...

The Delhi high court also took less than 6 months to conclude hearing on their appeal and affirmed the sentence but proceedings in the apex...

Almost two years after staying the execution of death sentence of the four condemned prisoners, the apex court began final hearing on their...

Sushma Swaraj said she believes that culprits of crimes like the gangrape of a photojournalist in Mumbai should be given death sentence.