#NirbhayaCase hearing begins in the #SupremeCourt. SG Tushar Mehta starts by saying the Supreme Court will have to lay down the law eventually. Nation's patience has been tested enough now, adds Mehta.
Mehta: Out of 4, all remedies have been exhausted for 3 #NirbhayaCase convicts. Pawan Gupta has chosen not to avail of any remedy. "Are the authorities require to wait indefinitely? Can a calculated attempt to delay matters create perpetual uncertainty over execution?" asks Mehta
Justice Ashok Bhushan, in the context of Pawan having not filed curative: "Nobody can be compelled to use legal remedy. It is for them to decide."
Justice R Banumathi: "Delhi High Court has now given them a week to avail all possible legal remedies."
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SG Mehta seeks this matter requires a hearing after seeking responses the #NirbhayaCase convicts. "Let them come here & state what they propose to do," says Mehta.
Judges are inclined to adjourn it to Tuesday, and issue notices to the convicts.
#SupremeCourt to hear the case on Tuesday next week, as it also records in its order that the time given by the HC to the #NirbhayaCase convicts for exhausting all remedies expire on Wednesday, Feb 12.
Even as SG Mehta pleads for issuance of notices to all the #NirbhayaCase convicts, #SupremeCourt says issuance of notices will only delay the matter further. "They have already been given 1 week by the High Court. Let us see on Tuesday what have they done,"remarks Justice Bhushan
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