2012 Delhi gangrape case: Death row convict files curative petition in SC
A Delhi court has ordered the execution of four convicts in the case on 3 MarchThe four convicts are lodged in Tihar jail
NEW DELHI: Pawan Gupta, one of four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, has filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court, seeking to stay his execution.
Gupta has sought the commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment. He also has the option of filing a mercy plea after this.
Issuing fresh death warrants to four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, a Delhi court on 17 February had ordered their execution for 3 March at 6 am.
This is the third time that death warrants have been issued against the convicts. The Patiala House court had on 31 January stayed "till further orders" execution of the four convicts -- Mukesh Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Akshay Kumar -- lodged in Tihar Jail.
In December 2012, a 23-year-old woman was brutally assaulted and raped by six people in a moving bus in south Delhi, an incident which prompted nationwide protests. She succumbed to her injuries on 29 December at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
Of the six, one was a juvenile who was let off after his sentence, while another committed suicide while in prison.
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