In the Nirbhaya gang rape case in 2012, Delhi's Patiala House Court on Tuesday issued a death warrant for the four convicts. These four will be hanged at 7 am on 22 January. Earlier, a judge of the Patiala House Court spoke to the four convicts through video conferencing. During this time the media was also not allowed inside. During the hearing, Nirbhaya's mother and the guilty Mukesh's mother wept in court.
During the hearing, the prosecution said there was no application pending before any court or the President right now by any of the convicts and the review petition of all the convicts was dismissed by the Supreme Court.
While urging the court to issue the death warrants, the prosecution said, "In between issuance and execution of death warrants of the convicts want to file curative petitions they can do so."
The counsel for two of the convicts – Mukesh and Vinay Sharma – said they were in process of filing curative petition in the Supreme Court.
Four men, Pawan Gupta, Mukesh, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh are on death row after being held guilty of Nirbhaya's gang-rape, torture and killing on 16 December, 2012.Nirbhaya, the 23-year-old medical student, was gang-raped on a moving bus, tortured with an iron rod and dumped by the roadside by six men. She died in hospital days later.
