2012 Nirbhaya Rapists To Be Hanged, Supreme Court Turns Down Review Petition Of Convicts

The Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty of five accused in 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape case.

A three-judge bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra and also comprising Justice Ashok Bhushan and R Bhanumathi, rejected the review petitions filed by three convicts, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh.

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Rejecting the plea, the court said there was no ground to reconsider its previous verdict in 2017.?

The fourth convict, Akshay Thakur has not filed a review petition yet. The apex court had, however, in the last hearing, granted three weeks time to Akshay to file his review petition in the case.

Out of the six convicts, prime accused Ram Singh had allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar jail in 2013 during the trial of the case. Another juvenile accused was sentenced to three years term at a probation home.

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The Supreme Court had on May 5, last year, upheld the Delhi high court order of death penalty to the four convicts. Following which, the three convicts appealed before the Supreme Court for reviewing its order of sentencing them to the gallows.

Saket's fast track court on September 13, 2013 pronounced death sentence to all the four convicts. The trial court then referred the case to the Delhi high court for confirmation of their death sentence. The Delhi high court had on January 2017, reserved its verdict on confirming the death sentence and appeals of the four convicts.

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The men were accused of gang raping a paramedical student on a moving bus, which she had boarded along with a male friend on the night of December 16, 2012.

The 23-year-old who was badly injured in the assault and was and thrown out of the bus? subsequently died during the treatment at a Singapore hospital on December 29 the same year.