BHOPAL/NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a Madhya Pradesh man who was concurrently awarded capital punishment for hacking to death his five daughters.

Advocate Colin Gonsalves had approached Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam who had earlier ordered an interim stay of the execution of Maganlal Barela , who was scheduled to be hung to death in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh at dawn on Thursday.

The advocate had acted on the basis of a news report published in the Times of India website about possible execution of the convict on Thursday.

He had listed the matter for hearing at 10.30am on August 8. The stay was issued after members of the People's Union for Democratic Rights went to his residence and called an urgent hearing on Wednesday night, said sources.

Barela, the man who beheaded his five daughters in Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh in 2011, was to be executed at central jail in Jabalpur on Thursday morning. The Sehore district and sessions court had issued Maganlal's "black warrant" for execution of sentence on August 8.

President Pranab Mukherjee had rejected Maganlal's plea for clemency on July 22, 2013 after subsequent dismissal of his pleas for converting capital punishment into life imprisonment by Madhya Pradesh high court (Jabalpur bench) and Supreme Court of India.

He was found guilty of beheading his daughters Arti (4), Savita (5), Leela (6), Jamuna (1), and Phool Kanwar (2) to death with an axe following a dispute over property with his two wives on June 11, 2010. Police charged him under Section 302 of the IPC.