Nirbhaya case: SC appoints 2 senior lawyers as amicus

Mangalore Today News Network

Apr 09, 2016: The Supreme Court Friday appointed two senior lawyers as amicus curiae to assist the court in deciding the appeals of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case.

A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra appointed senior advocates Raju Ramachandran and Sanjay Hegde as amicus. While Ramachandran, who also argued as amicus for 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab, would assist the court in appeals of convicts Mukesh and Pawan, Hegde would appear for convicts Vinay and Akshay.

“We must express our concern in the matter. We feel the gravity in the whole issue. Sometimes there are many perceptions and we don’t want to miss anything. We would like to be assisted by the amicus curiae in the matter.

We appoint two senior counsels... as amicus... ,” stated the bench, also comprising Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice Kurian Joseph. The matter is listed for next hearing on July 18. There is currently a stay on the execution of the convicts.

A 23-year-old paramedic was brutally assaulted and gangraped by six persons in a moving bus in South Delhi and then thrown out of the vehicle, along with her male friend, on the night of December 16, 2012. She had died in a Singapore hospital 13 days later.