Nirbhaya case: Delhi Court reserves order on the plea of Mukesh Singh seeking to quash death penalty
New
Delhi,
Mar
17:
A
Delhi
Court
on
Tuesday
reserved
the
order
on
the
plea
of
one
of
the
four
death
row
convicts
in
the
2012
Nirbhaya
gangrape
and
murder
case,
Mukesh
Singh.
Mukesh
moved
a
court
in
Delhi
to
seek
quashing
of
death
penalty
claiming
that
he
was
not
in
Delhi
when
the
gangrape
incident
took
place.
Reportedly, Mukesh's plea before Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana claimed he was arrested from Rajasthan and brought to Delhi on December 17, 2012, one day after the crime.
The plea, three days before the four men convicted for the gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern are scheduled to be hanged, also alleged that he was tortured inside the Tihar jail.
The matter is scheduled to be heard later on Tuesday. On March 5, a trial court issued fresh warrants for the execution of Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) on March 20, 5.30 am.
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This is the fourth death warrant. The earlier three were deferred pending the exhaustion of legal remedies by the convicts.
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On
Monday,
Mukesh
moved
the
Supreme
Court
seeking
restoration
of
legal
remedies
and
alleging
that
his
earlier
counsel
misled
and
forced
him
to
sign
the
papers.
The
apex
court
had
refused
to
entertain
his
plea.
On Tuesday, Advocate AP Singh approached National Human Rights Commission over the death of one of the convicts Ram Singh. Ram Singh had allegedly committed suicide inside the Tihar Jail. He has also sought compensation for his mother.
On July 9, 2018, the court dismissed his review plea against its judgement. Later, his curative and mercy pleas were rejected by the top court and President Ram Nath Kovind respectively.
The young woman, who came to be known as 'Nirbhaya' (the fearless one), was gangraped and savagely assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16, 2012. She died after a fortnight.
Six
people,
including
the
four
convicts
and
a
juvenile,
were
named
as
accused.
Ram
Singh,
the
sixth
accused,
allegedly
committed
suicide
in
Tihar
Jail
days
after
the
trial
began
in
the
case.
The
juvenile
was
released
in
2015
after
spending
three
years
in
a
correctional
home.