SC stays death penalty of 2 Delhi gang-rape convicts till March 31

March 15, 2014 17:52

Supreme Court stays death penalty of two Delhi gang-rape convicts -- Mukesh and Pawan -- till March 31.

After the Delhi High Court upheld their death sentences in the December 16 gangrape case, two of the convicts had approached the Supreme Court challenging their conviction and the death sentence.

Mukesh and Pawan are among the six men convicted in the gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman inside a moving bus on December 16, 2012.

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