The judge convicted them for the offences under sections 376 (D) (gang rape), 395 (dacoity), 366 (kidnapping), 342 (wrongful confinement), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
A teenager, who had allegedly run over a 32-year-old man with his father's Mercedes, on Tuesday succeeded in securing bail in his third attempt.
Sources privy to the proceedings said the board pulled up the parents of the boy, who has just turned major, saying they had promoted his habit of driving even when he was minor.
The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a charge sheet on Friday against seven people, including three juveniles, in connection to the death of 19-year-old student Nido Tania.
A five-judge Bench of Justices NV Ramana, Arun Mishra, RF Nariman, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan heard the petition filed by Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh. The duo had moved a curative petition in the top court after a Delhi court issued death warrants in their names for their hanging on January 22.
The Supreme Court today directed the Delhi police to place before it the dying declaration of the December 16 gang rape victim along with other trial court records of the case in which four convicts were awarded death sentence.
He was sent to two days in 'police custody' by the Juvenile Justice Board on Monday, a senior police official said.
The CJI said one of his relatives had earlier appeared on behalf of the victim's mother in the case and observed that it would be appropriate that some other bench hear the review plea at 10:30 am.
Akshay moves SC, saying death penalty entails 'cold blooded killing'. The SC has already rejected review pleas of 3 other convicts.
Five persons arrested in connection with the gangrape of a 51-year-old Danish tourist were on Monday sent in police custody till January 23 by a Delhi court.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on the pleas seeking fresh interpretation of the term 'juvenile' in the statute and leaving it to the criminal court, instead of Juvenile Justice Board, to determine the juvenility of an offender in heinous crimes.
A Delhi court on Saturday recorded the statement of two police officials in a case in which a 52-year-old Danish woman was allegedly gang raped by nine persons last year.
A Delhi court on Monday completed recording of the evidence of prosecution witnesses in the December 16 gangrape case with the investigating officer, saying she had arrested accused after the incident was reported.
The prosecution in the December 16 gang rape case on Saturday told a court in Mumbai that the brutal assault meted out to the victim and her male friend by the alleged rapists was with a motive to "eliminate" them so that neither was left alive to narrate the horrific ordeal.
Two juveniles arrested in connection with the Shakti Mill gang rape cases of a photojournalist and a telephone operator were on Tuesday convicted by the Juvenile Justice Board and sent to a Nashik school for three years to learn "good behaviour".
The Juvenile Justice Board had noted that the accused was mature enough to recognise the consequences of his actions.
A 3-judge bench would hear the plea, that has questioned
A curative petition is the last and final judicial remedy available to a person convicted by courts of law.
Here is the chronology of events in the Nirbhaya case.
The girl was later sent to a juvenile home till January 31.
The high court also faulted the authorities concerned for not taking steps for issuance of death warrant after the rejection of appeals of the accused by the Supreme Court in 2017.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to lower the age of juvenile from 18 years saying the legislature has fixed the age which is constitutionally permissible. A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam, rejected two petitions, filed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy and parents of December 16 gang rape victim, challenging the constitutional validity of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000.
The judge passed the order on the plea by the convicts seeking adjournment of the executions 'sine die'. The four were scheduled to be hanged on February 1 at 6 am. This is for the second time that the execution of the death warrants has been deferred.
The Supreme Court on Saturday stayed till March 31 the execution of death penalty of two of the four convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case, a couple of days after the Delhi high court upheld their punishment awarded by the trial court.
The apex court said the death row convicts failed to point out 'error apparent on the face of record' in the judgment.
The Centre has put the blame on state governments while state governments complain that money is not released for the proposals given by them to the Empowered Committee that has been tasked with recommending proposals to be funded under this framework.
The CBI said the interrogation was needed to reconstruct the scene of crime, to unearth conspiracy, if any, and to collect any other evidence related to the case.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the Juvenile Justice Board be informed not to pronounce its verdict on the alleged role of a minor in the December 16 gangrape and murder case, till it decides a PIL seeking fresh interpretation of the term 'juvenile'.
The Additional Judicial Magistrate acquitted the six men, giving them benefit of the doubt, according to a lawyer.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir said that interference in Juvenile Justice Act is not necessary and dismissed a batch of PILs which were filed in the aftermath of the December 16 brutal gangrape and murder case in which a minor was also allegedly involved.
The juvenile accused in the December 16 gang rape and murder of 23-year-old paramedic on Wednesday denied all the charges against him, claiming that he was not a participant in the horrendous crime.
The four death row convicts are Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence awarded to the four convicts in the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old girl in New Delhi on December 16, 2012 that shook the nation's conscience and led to widespread protests.
Mehta told Justice Suresh Kait that convict Pawan Gupta's move of not filing a curative or a mercy petition is a deliberate, calculated inaction.
Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi said even the court understands that the convicts are filing pleas one after the other just to delay the hanging.
The father of the Delhi gang rape victim has taken a strong exception to the defence counsel's contention -- that death penalty was awarded to the four convicts under political pressure -- and termed the statement as an insult to the judiciary.
A 3-judge bench headed by Justice R Banumathi said there are no grounds to review the verdict
The Friday morning encounter of all the four accused in the brutal rape-and-murder case of a 25-year-old woman veterinarian last month in Hyderabad triggered a nationwide debate on justice delivery, with one side supporting it as speedy justice and the other raising concerns over 'extra-judicial' measures. Here is a look at the legal status of some rape cases which shook the country.
As the country remembered the braveheart who was brutally gang-raped on December 16 exactly a year ago, the juvenile who escaped with lighter punishment after being convicted in the case spent the entire day watching reports flashed by the media on the incident.
The CID also charged three minors, as they were also apprehended during the probe.
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