Hangman Pawan conducts dummy execution of Nirbhaya convicts at Tihar Jail

Hangman Pawan Jallad reached Tihar jail on Tuesday, three days ahead of the scheduled hanging of convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. Jallad has also conducted a dummy execution on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Pawan, a hangman from Meerut, on Wednesday conducted dummy execution of the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case convicts at Tihar Jail here.

The four convicts in the 2012 case, Mukesh Singh, Akshay Singh Thakur, Pawan Gupta, and Vinay Sharma are scheduled to be hanged at 5:30 am on March 20.

A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Mukesh Singh seeking quashing of the death penalty claiming that he was not in Delhi when the crime was committed.

The case pertains to the brutal gang-rape and killing of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012, by six people including a juvenile in the national capital. The woman had died at a Singapore hospital a few days later.

(ANI)