Delhi Court Admits Plea To Expedite Execution In Nirbhaya Case

A court in Delhi on Saturday admitted a petition filed by the mother of a woman who was gang-raped in New Delhi in December 2012 to transfer the case from a vacant fast-track court to another judge, ANI reported.

Six men had raped and brutally assaulted the 23-year-old student in a moving bus in Delhi on December 16, 2012. The woman succumbed to her injuries two weeks later at a hospital in Singapore. A minor convict was released in December 2015 after serving three years in a detention home for juveniles, while one convict died in prison. The four other convicts were awarded the death penalty.

The mother said in her petition that “despite continuous follow-ups by petitioners, the state machineries kept sleeping as if they are totally unaware of further proceedings” though the Supreme Court dismissed a review petition filed by convicts in July 2018. They had requested that their punishment be reduced to life sentence.