Execute All Dec 16 Convicts Together, Rules Delhi HC

Holding that the four Nirbhaya case convicts have to be hanged together and not separately, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday set a 7-day deadline for them to avail any remaining remedies but refused to stay a trial court order indefinitely postponing their execution.

- Poonam Sharma

The high court also accepted that the convicts adopted all possible tactics to frustrate the death warrant. The court, quoting the Delhi Prison Rule 834 and 836, said that all convicts on death row will only be hanged together. If there is any petition or application by any of them pending for decision, none of the convicts will go to execution.