The hanging of the four convicts is likely to be postponed after the death warrant was issued in the Nirbhaya case on February 1. Sessions Judge AK Jain summoned the Tihar Jail administration to report to 10 in the morning on the plea of the convict's lawyer AP Singh.

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According to the media report, advocate AP Singh filed a petition in Patiala House Court on Thursday morning to stop the hanging of the 4 convicts Akshay Singh Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Kumar Sharma, and Pawan Kumar Gupta. The convicts A.P. Singh has filed a petition in the Patiala House Court in Delhi, demanding that the hanging date be stopped on February 1. Regarding the petition, it has been argued that as per the rules, all the options in the same crime cannot be hanged before they are over. The lawyer has cited for this.

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It is impossible to be there on February 1, because it is necessary to tell any convict about it 14 days before he is hanged. Similarly, to hang all the culprits in the crime simultaneously is also the rule. It is difficult to be hanged on February 1 in the event of following both of these rules. According to the death warrant by the Patiala House Court of Delhi, the four convicts are to be hanged in Delhi's Tihar Jail No-3, 2 days later, on February 1, for which the jail administration has made full preparations.

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