Fourth Nirbhaya convict files curative plea in apex court
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
29.02.2020
New Delhi: Pawan Kumar Gupta , one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape-cum-murder case, filed a curative plea in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking commutation of his capital punishment to life imprisonment.
Gupta is the only among the four not have exhausted his legal remedies. After the curative plea, he is also entitled to file mercy plea to the President. The apex court had rejected curative pleas of the three other convicts.
The trial court on February 17 issued fresh date for execution of death warrants for March 3 at 6 am for the four convicts -- Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar (31).
The mercy petitions of three convicts -- Mukesh, Vinay and Akshay -- have already been dismissed by the President. The apex court had also dismissed separate pleas filed by Mukesh and Vinay challenging the rejection of their mercy petitions by the President. Akshay has not yet challenged the rejection of his mercy petition.
Dismissing the plea of Mukesh and Vinay against rejection of their mercy plea, the apex court had said that there was no illegality in the decision of the President in rejecting their plea and dismissed their contention that the President was not supplied with all the relevant documents pertaining to the case and that their mercy plea was decided with a ‘pre-determined mind’ and without application of mind.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
29.02.2020
New Delhi: Pawan Kumar Gupta , one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape-cum-murder case, filed a curative plea in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking commutation of his capital punishment to life imprisonment.
Gupta is the only among the four not have exhausted his legal remedies. After the curative plea, he is also entitled to file mercy plea to the President. The apex court had rejected curative pleas of the three other convicts.
The trial court on February 17 issued fresh date for execution of death warrants for March 3 at 6 am for the four convicts -- Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar (31).
The mercy petitions of three convicts -- Mukesh, Vinay and Akshay -- have already been dismissed by the President. The apex court had also dismissed separate pleas filed by Mukesh and Vinay challenging the rejection of their mercy petitions by the President. Akshay has not yet challenged the rejection of his mercy petition.
Dismissing the plea of Mukesh and Vinay against rejection of their mercy plea, the apex court had said that there was no illegality in the decision of the President in rejecting their plea and dismissed their contention that the President was not supplied with all the relevant documents pertaining to the case and that their mercy plea was decided with a ‘pre-determined mind’ and without application of mind.
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