Top court quashes UP couple’s death warrants

The Supreme Court today quashed the execution warrants of a young woman and her lover, convicted for killing seven members of her family including a 10- monthold baby in Uttar Pradesh in 2008, saying it was issued “in haste” by giving a go- by to mandatory guidelines.

HT Correspondent

The CBI on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the alleged rape of an MBA student of a private university in Haryana was a serious matter and it needed time to examine the petition before replying to the notice issued to it for taking over the probe from the state police.

A vacation bench headed by Justice A K Sikri gave a day’s time to both the Haryana government and CBI to file their replies and fixed May 29 to hear the girl’s petition.

According to the victim the state police have not carried out the probe in a fair manner.

During the deliberations, the bench said: “It is a case in which the accused are going to be the lawyers.”

The bench said all the accused should be served with the notice in judicial custody in Sonepat jail and dispensed with serving the notice to the O P Jindal Global University in Hissar, which was made party in the petition.

The SC had on May 20 agreed to urgently hear the plea of the 21-year old alleged victim, a student of Hissar-based University. She had alleged that she was blackmailed by seniors who took her nude photographs and forced to her to get into physical relationship with them.