Will knock the door of SC if rights of Himachal Pradesh not given by the Centre: CM
Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu has said that he will meet the Union Ministers to release the aid to Himachal under the Post Disaster Need Assessment (PDNA).
In a major development to the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Supreme Court on Monday reserved judgment on the appeals filed by four death row convicts.
A top court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan heard the case.
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The convicts – Akshay, Pawan, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh – had earlier challenged the Delhi High Court order which had sentenced them to the gallows. The trial court also had sentenced all the four convicts to death penalty.
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The top court had on February 3 accepted submissions made by amicus curiae in the case, Raju Ramachandran, that there has been a procedural error in sentencing of the men.
In a moving bus, six people gang raped a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern and she succumbed to her injuries in a Singapore hospital on December 29, 2012.
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