Renuka Kiran Shinde and Seema Mohan Gavit, sentenced to death in 2001 on conviction of kidnapping 13 children and killing nine of them.
Mercy petitions of the two convicts were rejected by the President Pranab Mukherjee late last month.
After receiving the communication from the President about the women's execution, the time taken by Maharashtra State Home Department to inform all concerned about their hanging ended on Saturday, 16 August 2014.
Indian courts only hand out death sentences for the rarest of crimes such as exceptionally heinous and cold-blooded murders.
The two sisters, and their mother, kidnapped one to five-year-old children from poor families and forced them into begging.
Moving in crowded places such as railway stations and temples, they sometimes used the children to distract people while they stole and picked pockets.
And as the children grew older, fearing that they might turn against them, the sisters brutally killed nine of them by bashing their heads on walls or iron rods and by chopping them into pieces.
In one instance, they carried a gunny bag with a child's corpse in it, stopped for a snack and a movie before they got rid of the body.
For kidnapping of the children, the duo has also taken the help of their mother Anjana Bai.
Both Renuka nad Seema are presently lodged in Yerwada Jail in Pune. Mother of the convicts Anjana Bai had died during the trial period and their father Kiran Shinde turned into an approver in the case and was acquitted.
GL Yedke, the judge in Kolhapur, had termed the sisters' crime as 'the most heinous,' while awarding the death sentence to them in 2001.
Renuka and Seema seemed to have enjoyed killing the children, the judge had observed further.
In Maharashtra, there are 24 convicts on death sentence, including the three convicts of Mumbai's Shakti Mills rape case.
The number of people executed in India since Independence is a matter of dispute. Government statistics claim that only 52 people have been executed since independence.
However, research by the People's Union for Civil Liberties indicates that the actual number of executions is in fact much higher, as they have located records of 1,422 executions in the decade from 1953 to 1963 alone.
However, there is no record of any woman's execution.
