A bench headed by Justice R Bhanumathi did not pay heed to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta's request to issue notices to the convicts on the Centre's plea and said it would further postpone the matter.
In the bench, Justices Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna were also present and told Mehta that it would hear him on February 11at 2pm and it may consider whether notice was required to be issued to the convicts.
The Centre has challenged the Delhi High Court's order passed on Wednesday that all the four convicts had to be executed together and not separately. However, the HC had given a week's deadline to all convicts to exercise there all remaining legal remedies.
If the convicts would choose not lodge any sort of petition in seven days from now, the concerned authorities would deal with the matter, as per the law without further delay, it said.
Mehta, during friday's hearing, insisted that eventually the apex court will have to pave law on the issue as the convicts were abusing the legal loopholes.
Mehta has also informed that out of the four convicts, all remedies had been exhausted by three and only Pawan had chosen not to avail of any remedy.
“Are the authorities required to wait indefinitely? Can a calculated attempt to delay matters create perpetual uncertainty over execution?” Mehta wondered as he pointed out that Pawan review petition was discussed in July 2018.
The Bench said, "Nobody can be compelled to use legal remedy. It is for them to decide...The Delhi High Court has now given them one week to avail of all possible legal remedies."
The 23-year-old paramedic student was brutally gang-raped on the biting cold night of December 16, 2012, in running bus by six men and severely tormented before being thrown out on the road. She died on December 29, 2012, at a hospital in Singapore where she was airlifted to get treatment for her injuries.