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  CBI files 4 new cases against underworld don Chhota Rajan, associates

  India | January 22, 2020 9:44 IST

  CBI has filed four new cases against underworld don Chhota Rajan and his associates under the sections for murder, attempt to murder, extortion and criminal conspiracy.

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  Nirbhaya case: Tihar jail seeks from court fresh death warrants against 4 convicts

  India | January 17, 2020 15:56 IST

  Tihar jail authorities Friday sought before a Delhi court issuance of fresh death warrants against the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.

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  Nirbhaya convict collapses before being shifted to cell near hanging courtyard

  India | January 17, 2020 11:06 IST

  One of the convicts in the brutal Nirbhaya gangrape case from 2012, collapsed in his jail cell when he was told that he was being moved to a cell hear the hanging courtyard. Vinay, who was in cell 4, got a panic attack when he was told that he was being shifted to another cell from where he would be taken for his hanging. 

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  Nirbhaya case: Death row convict Pawan Gupta's father demands FIR against sole eyewitness

  India | January 17, 2020 7:16 IST

  Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court has been told that "hanging of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case can't take place on January 22. The execution of convicts will surely not take place on January 22. The fate of a death-row convict comes to a finality only after his mercy plea is rejected by the President."

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  Nirbhaya convicts earned ₹ 1.37 lakh in Tihar, appeared in Class 10 exams but failed

  India | January 15, 2020 16:35 IST

  Convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case are nearing their end. During their stay at Tihar jail, the convicts appeared for exams and also did chores, earning prison wages up to Rs 1,37,000. According to Tihar jail sources, convicts Akshay Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, and Vinay Sharma did labour work.

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  Nirbhaya case: 4 death-row convicts to be shifted to Tihar's Jail No. 3

  India | January 10, 2020 6:56 IST

  The four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya case are likely to be shifted to Jail No. 3 in Tihar on Friday, where their execution will take place on January 22, a senior jail official said on Thursday. Currently, three convicts are lodged in Jail No. 2 and one in Jail No. 4.

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  Shahabuddin moves Supreme Court, says 'subjected to isolation in Tihar'

  India | January 08, 2020 23:28 IST

  ​Convicted gangster Mohammad Shahabuddin here on Wednesday complained to the Supreme Court that he was allegedly being kept in complete isolation in the Tihar jail.

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  Nirbhaya case: Tihar to write to UP prisons seeking services of two hangmen

  India | January 08, 2020 22:18 IST

  "We will most likely write to the prison authority of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday and seek services of two hangmen depending on the availability," a senior Tihar Jail official said.

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  Ready to hang Nirbhaya convicts as desperately need money for daughter's wedding: Pawan Jallad

  India | January 08, 2020 22:20 IST

  With folded hands, Pawan Jallad thanks God for being tasked by UP jail administration for executing the death sentence of all four convicts of Nirbhaya rape and murder case.

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  Nirbhaya case: All convicts to be executed in Tihar Jail's cell 3 on January 22

  India | January 08, 2020 8:37 IST

  All the convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case will be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar Jail's cell 3. It is the same cell where Afzal Guru was executed in the Parliament attack case.   

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  Death countdown begins for Nirbhaya rapists: Meerut hangman to hang convicts in Tihar on January 22

  India | January 08, 2020 0:00 IST

  Meerut hangman Pawan Jallad will carry out the execution of convicts in the sensational Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case on January 22 in Tihar jail.

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  Tihar prepares four new gallows to hang Nirbhaya rape convicts soon

  India | January 02, 2020 13:18 IST

  Tihar jail seems to be preparing for the hanging of four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case. As per sources, the jail authorities are readying new gallows frame and making other preparations for the hanging of convicts.

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  Sonia Gandhi shedding crocodile tears; Indira Gandhi had sent students to Tihar: BJP

  India | December 17, 2019 6:56 IST

  Hitting back at Sonia Gandhi for her remark that the Modi government has "declared war on its own people", Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said the Congress president was shedding "crocodile tears" for political gains.

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  Death countdown pushes Nirbhaya's rapists under depression, reduced food intake

  India | December 13, 2019 22:40 IST

  ​The death countdown has pushed convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya rape and murder case under depression, jail sources told PTI on Friday. Sources revealed all the four convicts have also reduced their food intake.

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  Pawan Jallad, hangman from Meerut prison, 'ready' to hang Nirbhaya's rapists

  India | December 13, 2019 18:03 IST

  Pawan Jallad, a hangman at the Meerut prison, said that he is ready to carry out the execution in the Tihar jail of the men convicted of raping and murdering Nirbhaya in 2012.

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  Nirbhaya case: Why execution of four convicts is a challenge for Tihar jail

  India | December 13, 2019 14:30 IST

  Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case gathered the nation's attention in 2012 and the furore is still alive. The four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case are nearing execution. Reports also say execution ropes have been prepared to hang the convicts of the Nirbhaya gangrape case. However, collective hanging of the four convicts has posed some challenges before the Tihar jail authorities.

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  Nirbhaya case: Tihar officials seek hangmen from Uttar Pradesh

  India | December 12, 2019 11:18 IST

  In the Nirbhaya case that took place on December 16, 2012, six persons brutally raped a 23-year-old paramedic in a moving bus. She was accompanied by a friend who was also beaten up and later, both of them were thrown out of the vehicle.

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  Nirbhaya case convicts shifted to Tihar jail, likely to be hanged soon

  India | December 10, 2019 12:02 IST

  Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old paramedic, was brutally gang-raped on December 16, 2012, inside a running bus by six people in Delhi. The shocking incident left the nation stunned and forced the government to tighten the rape laws.

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  Head constable offers to work as executioner in Tihar jail

  India | December 07, 2019 22:39 IST

  He said he did not require even pay for his job and claimed he can do the execution effectively. He said four people, sentenced to death in the Nirbhaya case, were awaiting execution.

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  Provide inmates with items permissible under prison rules, nothing extra: HC to prison officials

  India | December 06, 2019 19:48 IST

  The court disposed of the PIL after the prison authorities, represented by Delhi government standing counsel (criminal) Rahul Mehra, told the bench that none of the items in the ASJ's report were provided specially to the Chandras as such things were available to all the inmates.