GUWAHATI: The Centre told the Delhi High Court that the four death row convicts in Nirbhaya case are “not entitled” to any more time as credibility of the judiciary and its own power to execute death sentence are at stake.
This was with reference to the 2019 gang rape and murder of a Hyderabad vet in which the four accused were killed by police in an alleged encounter.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre and Delhi government, said there is a deliberate, calculated and well thought of design to “frustrate mandate of law” by the convicts who were “trying the patience of the nation.
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