The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday stayed till April 10 the execution of Dharampal, a rape convict who later murdered the victim and four members of her family while out on parole in 1993.
Dharampal was set to be hanged on April 15 and had been brought from Rohtak jail where he was lodged to Ambala for the execution, Haryana DGP (Prisons) Sharad Kumar had said earlier on Saturday. The Division bench of Justice AK Mittal and Justice GS Sandhawalia took up the petition for conversion of the death sentence into life imprisonment.