Nirbhaya Verdict

Nirbhaya convicts hanged: A long way to go in ensuring safety of women

While we have every reason to heave a sigh of relief and celebrate the fact that justice has been done, we should not be blind to the fact that we still have a long way to go

UN calls for scrapping capital punishment after Nirbhaya convicts' hanging

Nirbhaya rape convicts were were hanged to death on Friday at 5.30 am in New Delhi's Tihar Jail.

Nirbhaya finally gets justice: All four convicts executed in Tihar Jail

Hours before their execution, the Supreme Court dismissed their final petition in a hearing, held after midnight, bringing the curtains down on a 7-year-old case that had left the nation in shock

Time to introspect about death-row convicts using delaying tactics: Prasad

The four men were hanged at 5.30 am on March 20 inside Delhi's Tihar Jail.

Nirbhaya case: Swift justice required in rarest of rare cases, say lawyers

Some lawyers also supported strict punishments and defended continuing capital punishment

Nirbhaya Fund underutilised at 9%, schemes see spending of less than 25%

Under the scheme, a helpline with a common number across the country, specifically for women, will link with the OSCs to provide aid to women in distress.

Politicians, celebs hail Nirbhaya convicts' hanging, call for stricter laws

The four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case were hanged to death at 5:30 a.m. in Delhi's Tihar jail on Friday

Satwant Singh to Nirbhaya case: History of executions in Independent India

Sixteen convicts have been executed in the country in the past three decades, including Yakub Memon, Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab.

Three Nirbhaya case convicts move ICJ seeking stay on death sentence

The petition claimed that the convicts have been treated as "guinea pigs" and have been falsely implicated in the case and it urged the ICJ to order urgent probe into the matter

Nirbhaya case: Death row convict Pawan Gupta moves curative plea in SC

He is the lone convict among the four who has not exhausted his legal remedies of filing a curative petition and subsequent mercy plea with the President

Nirbhaya verdict: SC defers hearing on Centre's plea for separate execution

A bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and A S Bopanna appointed senior advocate Anjana Prakash as amicus curiae on Thursday to represent the convict Pawan Kumar Gupta

Nirbhaya case: Centre, Delhi govt move SC challenging HC verdict on hanging

The high court said all the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case have to be executed together

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate India's five-day biennial mega defence exhibition on Wednesday in Lucknow

Nirbhaya case: Verdict on plea against stay of death warrants on Wednesday

Earlier in the day, the counsel for Nirbhaya's parents made an urgent mentioning before Justice Kait, seeking early disposal of Nirbhaya matter

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Moscow on Wednesday to present US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan to Russian leader Vladimir Putin

Nirbhaya case: SC to hear convict's plea against HC order at 12.45 pm

Pawan Kumar Gupta's plea will be heard by a bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bushan and A S Bopanna

Nirbhaya convicts cannot be hanged on Jan 22: Delhi govt tells high court

The Supreme Court had on Tuesday dismissed the curative pleas of Mukesh and Vinay

Nirbhaya rape convicts still have legal remedies; SC to head plea on Dec 17

One of the accused in the case, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail

Nirbhaya gang rape convicts get death sentence: Here's how Twitter reacted

The nation was shaken up by the news of this reprehensible gang rape

Unhappy with SC's Nirbhaya verdict, convict lawyer to file review petition

Earlier, the trial court had also sentenced all the four convicts to death penalty