Nirbhaya’s rapists will hang as Supreme Court rejects review
New Delhi, July 9: The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence awarded to the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case. The court rejected the review pleas filed by the three convicts. The fourth convict had not preferred a review. The court said that the order was a considered one and there was no ground to re-consider the verdict.
All pleas of convicts were taken into account during hearing of appeals against HC order and no new ground has been raised in review petitions to warrant reconsideration of death penalties awarded to them in May2017, the Bench observed.
The Bench comprising Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan was hearing the review plea filed by Mukesh (29), Pawan Gupta (22) and Vinay Sharma (23). The fourth death row convict, Akshay Kumar Singh (31) did not filed a review petition against the order of the Supreme Court dated May 5 2017. Another accused Ram Singh had allegedly committed suicide at the Tihar jail. A minor in the case was convicted by the Juvenile Justice Court and served a three year sentence.
Timeline of Nirbhaya gang-rape case: How the events unfolded
The
court
had
upheld
the
death
penalty
awarded
to
the
rapists
by
the
Delhi
High
Court.
The
23-year-old
paramedic
student
was
gang-raped
on
the
intervening
night
of
December
16-17,
2012
inside
a
running
bus
in
south
Delhi
by
six
persons
and
severely
assaulted
before
being
thrown
out
on
the
road.
She
succumbed
to
her
injuries
on
December
29,
2012
at
Mount
Elizabeth
Hospital
in
Singapore.