NEW DELHI: A division bench of the Supreme Court (SC) decided to wait until next week before going ahead with hearing the petition filed by the government on hanging the four men convicted of death in the 2012 gang rape and murder case.
“We will have our next hearing on Feb 11,” said Justice R Banumathi after a brief hearing where the Center’s senior most law officer Tushar Mehta asked the court to issue notices to the four convicts.
Mehta had reasoned that the convicts were trying to delay their execution to let them, at a later stage, come back to the court and request commuting the death sentence on grounds of delay in hanging.
The Delhi High Court had earlier this week upheld the decision of a Delhi judge who cancelled the black warrant issued earlier to execute the four.
(Agencies)
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