Nirbhaya Case  

The Supreme Court will hear the curative petition of Nirbhaya case convict Pawan Gupta on Monday. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that the Bundelkhand Expressway is going to benefit the farmers of the region of UP. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds for the top headlines of the day.

According to reports, the Supreme Court will hear the curative petition of Nirbhaya case convict Pawan Gupta on Monday. The five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice NV Ramana will also consist of Justice Arun Mishra, Justice RF Nariman, Justice R Banumathi and Justice Ashok Bhushan.
             

Vinay Sharma's petition challenging rejection of mercy plea was dismissed by the Supreme Court bench. Meanwhile, Justice R Banumathi fainted while hearing Centre's petition seeking separate execution dates of convicts in the Nirbhaya case.

Vinay Sharma, one of the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, challenged the President's decision to dismiss his mercy petition in the apex court on Tuesday.

“As three mercy petitions have been dismissed till now and now no application of any convicts is pending in any court. Kindly issue a fresh date of execution,” prayed public prosecutor Irfan Ahmad
 

A Delhi court has sought response by Friday of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case based on an application seeking issuance of fresh death warrants against them
 

The Central government has said that the 2018 Rules does not prohibit the execution of death sentence of co-convicts, one by one, on the rejection of their respective mercy petitions

The Nirbhaya case convicts will be executed together and not separately, said the Delhi high court. Two terrorists were killed, and one Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan lost his life after terrorists attacked a check-post in Parim Pora, Srinagar on February 5. Do not miss the headlines of the day on MyNation in 100 seconds.

A little over seven years ago, after a 23 year old was brutally raped in a moving bus in the national capital leading to her death, public outrage and protests began not only in India but abroad also. The protests which continued for several months came to an end but there was someone whose life changed completely – Yogita Bhayana, an ordinary Delhi girl who was so moved by the whole movement that she went on to become the actual face of what is now known as “The Nirbhaya Movement”. Let’s find out more about Yogita’s journey in this episode of Not For Women Only with Sunita Iyer.

The Nirbhaya case convicts now have a weeks’ time to exhaust legal remedies against their hanging. The convicts will be executed together and not separately said the Delhi high court.

The development comes a day after the Supreme Court dismissed a plea filed by another convict, Mukesh, challenging the rejection of his mercy plea by the President. The four convicts in the case are scheduled to be executed on February 1 at 7am.

Days after the Supreme Court dismissed Nirbhaya case convict Akshay's review petition in December last year, the top court will once again hear a curative petition filed by him on January 30

A day after one of the Nirbhaya gang rape, murder case convicts, Mukesh Kumar Singh, challenged the rejection of his mercy petition by President Ram Nath Kovind, the Supreme Court, on Wednesday dismissed his plea and said that quick consideration could not mean no application of mind

On Tuesday, another Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder convict Akshay filed a curative petition to the Supreme Court. Today, the top court will pronounce its order on Mukesh Singh's mercy plea rejection.

The Supreme Court said that if a convict in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case files any petition, it will be the court's top priority, since the rapists are going to be executed on February 1. Mukesh Kumar Singh's counsel asked to approach the registry of the court for an urgent listing of his plea against rejection of mercy petition by the President.