Pawan Gupta had filed the mercy petition on Monday after the Supreme Court rejected his curative petition, his last resort to avoid execution.
Delhi| President Ramnath Kovind on Wednesday rejected the mercy petition filed by one of the convicts of 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape convict Pawan Gupta. Earlier, the Delhi government had recommended the dismissal of his mercy petition.
Pawan Gupta had filed the mercy petition on Monday after the Supreme Court rejected his curative petition.
Pawan Gupta was supposed to be hanged with three other convicts on 3rd March but the hanging had to be postponed until further orders after Gupta filed a curative petition in Supreme Court. Pawan had urged the Supreme Court to change his death sentence to life imprisonment.
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Gupta was the last convict among four death row convicts to move to Supreme Court with the curative petition, the last resort left for the convict. His lawyer had filed the mercy petition to the President on Monday after the SC dismissed his curative petition.
The trial court had earlier issued March 3 as a new date for execution of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
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