Courts pave way for dawn hanging of Nirbhaya killers

Of the six convicts, one committed suicide in jail and a minor served three-year of confinement in a reform home. The remaining four — Mukesh Singh (32), Akshay Thakur (31), Pawan Gupta (25) and Vinay Sharma (26) — were on death row since 2017, their execution postponed many times as they availed legal remedies.