The Supreme Court will hear a review petition filed by one of the four men convicted in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case at 2 pm on Tuesday
New Delhi: On Tuesday the Supreme Court is set to hear a review plea filed one of the four men convicted in the 2012 Delhi Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case.
The Supreme Court will hear a review petition filed by one of the four men convicted in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case at 2 pm on Tuesday. The Chief Justice of India SA Bobde and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan the three bench judges will hear the plea filed by Akshay Kumar.
Akshay Kumar, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Singh, and Ram Singh were convicted of the brutal gang-rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student who was named as Nirbhaya. Ram Singh killed himself in prison while another person and a minor were involved in the crime served a three-year term at a reformation center and was released.
After the Delhi High Court, Supreme Court upheld the convictions in the gang-rape and murder case and confirmed the death sentences to the convicts. In 2018, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, and Mukesh Singh filed a review petition in the top court asking it to reconsider its 2017 order that had upheld their convictions.
The apex court refused and the convicted remained on death row. Among these, men’s Vinay Sharma — filed a mercy petition with the President. The central government has recommended to the President that the mercy plea be rejected.
On Tuesday afternoon, the top Court will hear the review petition filed by the convicted Akshay Kumar, the only one of the four Nirbhaya convicts not to have filed such a plea. In the petition, Kumar made some pretty ridiculous arguments and the plea stated about the Vedas and Puranas and questioned why he was given the death penalty when the air pollution in Delhi is anyway killing people.
Two of the judges who will hear Akshay’s plea are Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan they were also on the bench that rejected the other three convicts’ review pleas and the original bench that in 2017 upheld the convictions in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case.
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