Nirbhaya rapists to be hanged tomorrow, court rejects all mercy petitions

Four men convicted of gangraping Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old Delhi paramedic student, in December 2012 will be hanged tomorrow at 5.30 am. The Patiala House Court rejected all petitions of the convicts, Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32, who are to hang at 5.30 am on Friday.
The convicts had requested that their execution be stopped, claiming that they still had legal remedies left.

“No legal remedies are pending as of now. Pawan and Akshay’s second mercy was also not entertained by the President of India,” Public Prosecutor Irfan Ahmad told the court.

“My friend can move 100 applications, but these are not strictly legal remedies,” he said.

There was much drama outside the court when a convict’s wife, who has sought a divorce, fainted outside the Patiala House court complex.