HC stays Dharampal's hanging till Apr 10

April 06, 2013 20:00

The Punjab and Haryana high court today stayed till April 10 the execution of Dharampal, a rape convict who later murdered the victim and four members of her family while out on parole in 1993.

Dharampal was set to be hanged on April 15 and had been brought from Rohtak jail where he was lodged to Ambala for the execution, Haryana DGP (Prisons) Sharad Kumar had said earlier today.

The division bench of Justice A K Mittal and Justice G S Sandhawalia took up the petition for conversion of the death sentence into life imprisonment. Among the grounds taken in the petition, filed before the high court was that the Supreme Court was already "seized of the matter".

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