New Delhi, January 7: Minutes after the court convicted and announced hanging of Nirbhaya case accused, the lawyer of Nirbhaya convicts AP Singh said that they will file a curative petition in the Supreme Court. The curative petition is the last judicial resort available for redressal of grievances in court which is normally decided by judges in-chamber. It is only in rare cases that such petitions are given an open-court hearing. Nirbhaya Rape And Murder Convicts to be Hanged on January 22 at 7 AM, Patiala House Court Issues Death Warrant.

The Patiala House Court on Tuesday issued death warrant against four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case. The convicts will be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Delhi's Tihar Jail. The plea was filed by Nirbhaya’s parents seeking the issuance of death warrant for all the four convicts at the earliest.

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Additional Session Judge Satish Kumar Arora issued the death warrant in the presence of all convicts, who were produced before the court through video conferencing. The convicts will be hanged at 7 am on January 22. Earlier in the day, the court reserved the order on the plea of parents of Nirbhaya seeking issuance of death warrant against all the four convicts in the case.

All the four convicts had earlier knocked at the doors of the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court order of March 2014 which had confirmed the capital punishment awarded to them by the trial court on September 13, 2013.However, the top court also dismissed their appeals after finding no merit.

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