The Tihar prison authorities stated that they will move to Delhi court to seek the fresh warrant as Vinay Sharma's mercy plea was rejected.

Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi stated that the lawyer of the convicts, AP Singh has challenged her saying that the convicts will never be executed.

It was the second petition moved by Akshay Singh and earlier he had approached the apex court with his curative petition to challenge the death penalty.

The Chief Justice bench has awarded the Central government four weeks to table its responses on the petitions filed to challenge the constitutional validity of CAA.

On January 9th, the Apex court had dismissed to hear the petitions that sought the court to dictate the act as unconstitutional by citing that the country has been witnessing tough and difficult times.