SC dismisses plea seeking immediate execution of Nirbhaya death-row convicts
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition seeking directions for the immediate execution of the four men convicted in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case of 2012 within two weeks.
By : migrator
Update: 2018-12-13 06:22 GMT
Chennai
The apex court in its 2017 verdict had upheld the capital punishment awarded to Mukesh (29), Pawan (22), Vinay Sharma (23) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) by the Delhi High Court and the trial court in the case of gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student on December 16, 2012.
The woman was gangraped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a running bus in South Delhi by six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road. She succumbed to injuries on December 29, 2012 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
On July 9, the apex court dismissed the pleas of three convicts -- Mukesh (31), Pawan Gupta (24) and Vinay Sharma (25) -- seeking review of the apex court verdict which upheld the judgements of the Delhi High Court and the lower court in the case.
The fourth death row convict, Akshay Kumar Singh (33), has not filed a review plea in the apex court.
One of the accused in the case, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail.
A juvenile, who was among the accused, was convicted by a juvenile justice board. He was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term.
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