Nirbhaya case: Supreme Court to hear death row convict’s review petition today

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Nov 13, 2017 : The Supreme Court will today hear a petition filed by one of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape case to review its decision confirming their death sentence.

 

The review petition filed by convict Mukesh contends that the apex court had not considered many issues that he had raised during the trial and subsequent appeal.

A 3-judge Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan will hear the review petition at 3.30 p.m.

The same bench had on May 5 this year upheld the High Court’s judgment awarding death sentence to the four convicts - Akshay Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh.

The Supreme Court’s decision came following a marathon hearing for about a year after the four convicts challenged the Delhi High Court ruling.

On December 16, 2012, six people gangraped and brutalised a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern in a moving bus. The woman succumbed to her injuries in a Singapore hospital on December 29, 2012.

One of the accused, Ram Singh hanged himself in Delhi’s Tihar Jail during trial. Another person, who was a juvenile at the time of the crime, was convicted on August 31, 2013 and sentenced to three years in a reformation home. He was released in December 2015.

courtesy: India Today