Nirbhaya convicts to hang at 5-30 am as Supreme Court rejects plea to review death penalty

New Delhi/IBNS: The four men convicted for the brutal 2012 gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student - who was later christened Nirbhaya by the media- will hang in the wee hours of Friday after the Supreme Court rejected their last-minute plea to stop their execution. 

Nirbhaya convicts' lawyers move Supreme Court hours before hanging, hearing at 2.30 am

 New Delhi/IBNS: After the pleas of the convicts of Nirbhaya, who had succumbed to a brutal gangrape by several men in a bus in Dec 2012, were rejected by the Delhi High Court, their lawyers have moved to the Supreme Court seeking stay on hanging, a few hours before their hanging today. The parents of Nirbhaya have reached the Supreme Court and a hearing is likely to begin  at 2:30, said reports.