Another review petition filed in SC in Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case
On July 9 last year, the apex court dismissed the pleas of three convicts seeking review of it 2017 verdictA special fast-track court in Delhi, in September 2013, had imposed capital punishment on the four convicts saying the case fit the 'rarest of rare' category
Akshya Kumar Singh, one of the four convicts of 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, on Tuesday filed a review petition for the 2017 verdict of Supreme Court which upheld the capital punishment given to him and three other convicts by the Delhi High Court and the trial court in the case.
On July 9 last year, the apex court dismissed the pleas of three convicts -- Mukesh (31), Pawan Kumar Gupta (24) and Vinay Sharma (25) -- seeking review of it 2017 verdict. The three of the convicts are housed in Tihar and one was lodged in Mandoli. Gupta, who was lodged in the Mandoli Jail, was shifted to Tihar recently, Director General (Prison) Sandeep Goel said.
The fourth death row convict, Akshay Kumar Singh (33), had not filed a review plea in the apex court earlier. The Apex court while dismissing the petition of the three accused person had held that no grounds have been made out by them for review of the verdict.
Advocate A P Singh has filed the petition on behalf of 31 years old Akshya.
A special fast-track court in Delhi, in September 2013, had imposed capital punishment on the four convicts saying the case fit the “rarest of rare" category. The sentence was upheld by the Delhi high court in appeal in 2014.
On 16 December 2012, a 23-year-old woman was brutally assaulted and raped by six persons in a moving bus in south Delhi, an incident which prompted nationwide protests. She died from her injuries on 29 December at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
One of the other accused, who was a juvenile at the time of the incident, has been sent to a reform centre for three years while another, Ram Singh, was found dead in his cell in the Tihar jail in March 2013.
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