Vinay Sharma, along with three others, is set to be executed on 1 February for the December 2012 gangrape and murder. The President has already rejected one of the convict's mercy plea.
Following Union minister Smriti Irani blaming AAP govt for the delay in the execution of the 16 December gangrape convicts, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said it wasn't right to do politics on the issue.
Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the 16 December gangrape & murder case, filed the mercy plea, which will likely delay the execution scheduled for 22 January.
The Delhi govt said it cannot carry out the death sentence against all four of the 16 December gangrape convicts until the pending mercy plea of one of the convicts is decided on.
Justice Manmohan Singh of Delhi HC says SC rejected all appeals, review & curative pleas in the gangrape-murder case & there was 'nothing wrong with the trial court order’.
A Delhi court has ordered to hang Vinay and Mukesh Singh, along with two other convicts Akshay Kumar Singh and Pawan Kumar, in Tihar jail on 22 January.
Two of the four convicts—Mukesh Kumar and Vinay Sharma—had filed curative petitions in Supreme Court after a Delhi court ordered the convicts to be hanged on 22 January.
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