<p>Nirbhaya rape and murder convicts were likely to be executed by a hangman from Uttar Pradesh.</p>.<p>Amid reports that the four Nirbhaya convicts could be executed soon, the Tihar jail administration has sounded UP prison officials for two hangmen.</p>.<p>Additional Director General (jails) Anand Kumar said here on Thursday that the state government has received a letter from Tihar jail administration to provide two hangmen.</p>.<p>Presently there were two certified hangmen in the state prisons. One was at Meerut jail while the other was at Lucknow jail.</p>.<p>The letter did not say who was to be executed and when was it planned, sources said.</p>.<p>Sources said that Pawan 'jallad' (hangman), one of the certified hangmen, was being sent to Tihar. ''The other hangman will also be sent if required,'' said a jail official here.</p>.<p>Fifty five year old Pawan, a resident of Meerut town, about 450 kilometres from here, belonged a family of hangmen for four generations. </p>.<p>One of the convicts, Akshoy Kumar Singh, has filed a review petition in the supreme court. It was likely to be heard on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Earlier the centre as well as the Delhi government rejected the mercy petitions of all the four accused. </p>.<p>Nirbhaya, a paramedic student, was brutally raped and tortured by five people, including a juvenile, in a moving bus in December 2012. She died at the hospital 13 days later. The incident had triggered a nationwide outrage. </p>
<p>Nirbhaya rape and murder convicts were likely to be executed by a hangman from Uttar Pradesh.</p>.<p>Amid reports that the four Nirbhaya convicts could be executed soon, the Tihar jail administration has sounded UP prison officials for two hangmen.</p>.<p>Additional Director General (jails) Anand Kumar said here on Thursday that the state government has received a letter from Tihar jail administration to provide two hangmen.</p>.<p>Presently there were two certified hangmen in the state prisons. One was at Meerut jail while the other was at Lucknow jail.</p>.<p>The letter did not say who was to be executed and when was it planned, sources said.</p>.<p>Sources said that Pawan 'jallad' (hangman), one of the certified hangmen, was being sent to Tihar. ''The other hangman will also be sent if required,'' said a jail official here.</p>.<p>Fifty five year old Pawan, a resident of Meerut town, about 450 kilometres from here, belonged a family of hangmen for four generations. </p>.<p>One of the convicts, Akshoy Kumar Singh, has filed a review petition in the supreme court. It was likely to be heard on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Earlier the centre as well as the Delhi government rejected the mercy petitions of all the four accused. </p>.<p>Nirbhaya, a paramedic student, was brutally raped and tortured by five people, including a juvenile, in a moving bus in December 2012. She died at the hospital 13 days later. The incident had triggered a nationwide outrage. </p>