2012 Delhi gang rape case: SC dismisses curative petition of death row convict
Pawan Gupta, death row convict, still has the option to file mercy petition before the President of IndiaOf the six convicts, one was a juvenile who was let off after his sentence, while another committed suicide
NEW DELHI : A five judge Supreme Court bench headed by the Chief Justice SA Bobde on Monday dismissed the curative petition of Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts of 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case.
Gupta had sought the commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment. He still has the option to file mercy petition before the President of India.
The four death row convicts have been ordered to be hanged tomorrow early morning. 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. She succumbed to her injuries on 29 December at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
Of the six convicts, one was a juvenile who was let off after his sentence, while another committed suicide in prison.
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