While the SC has rejected the petition by Convict Mukesh, another Convict Akshay has challenged his execution in the SC by filing the curative petition.
New Delhi| In December 2019, the death row Convict Akshay had asked the Supreme Court to grant him mercy from the death penalty since life in Delhi is anyway getting ‘short’ due to air and water pollution.
On Wednesday, using the last legal resort Akshay Singh, one of the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape-murder case challenged his execution in the Supreme Court known by filing a curative petition. He is the third convict out of four to challenge his hanging with the method in the case.
Convict Akshay had asked the Supreme Court to spare him the death penalty in December by stating that life in Delhi is anyway getting “short” due to air and water pollution. He had raised grounds like the futility of awarding death sentence in ‘Kalyug’, where a person is more or less a dead body, and that the level of pollution in Delhi NCR was so much that life is short anyhow. The apex court had rejected his petition.
The curative petition is likely to be heard by judges in their chambers. If the curative petition is rejected, he will have the option to send a mercy plea to President Ram Nath Kovind.
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The convicts Mukesh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) are scheduled to be hanged on February 1 at 7 am. But with the fresh petition filed, uncertainty surrounds on the hanging of the convicts.
The fifth convict was a juvenile at the time of the horrific crime and was sent to a remand home, later released.
Convict Mukesh Kumar Singh had also challenged the rejection of his mercy plea by President Ram Nath Kovind. A three-judge bench headed by Justice R Banumathi stated that there is no ground to challenge the dismissal and all aspects raised by the convict had been considered by the trial court, High Court the apex court and were placed by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) before President Kovind.
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