New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- : The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday a petition, filed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, seeking a direction to execute the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case separately.
A three-judge bench, headed by Justice R Banumathi and also comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and Navin Sinha, will hear the petition tomorrow.
The Centre moved the top court after the Delhi High Court had rejected its petition.
Delhi High Court had, on February 5, stated that that death warrant of all convicts in the Nirbhaya case should be executed together.
The High Court had observed that Delhi prison rules do not state whether when the mercy petition of one convict is pending, the execution of the other convi...