NEW DELHI, Dec. 6 -- The killers of Nirbhaya are further closer to the gallows with the Ministry of Home Affairs rejecting the mercy plea of one of the convicts.
The Ministry for Home Affairs recommended to the President of India to reject the mercy plea of the convict in the Nirbhaya case.
Earlier, Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal had also recommended rejecting the mercy petition filed by one of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya murder case. The development came a day after the Delhi Government recommended rejection of the mercy petition of Vinay Sharma, one of the convicts facing the gallows for the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student.
Vinay Sharma had filed a mercy petition before President Ram Nath Kovind.
The Delhi...