Nirbhaya case: Delhi court issues fresh death warrant for convicts

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday issued a fresh death warrant against the four death-row convicts in a Nirbhaya rape case who will now be executed on February 1 at 6 am.

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Earlier, they were to be hanged on February 22 at 7 am.

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This came after the public prosecutor representing the Tihar jail authorities requested the court to issue fresh date and time of execution. 

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Four convicts, Vinay, Akshay, Pawan and Mukesh were convicted and sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in the national capital on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012.

The victim, who was later given the name Nirbhaya, had succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Singapore where she had been airlifted for medical treatment. (ANI)

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