[ By Bobby Anthony ]Nirbhaya case death row convict Akshay Singh Thakur has petitioned Delhi’s Patiala House Court seeking a stay order on his hanging on February 1, 2020.Coming merely two days before the four Nirbhaya case convicts are to be hanged, this is the latest in a series of petitions filed by convicts in their attempts to put off their death sentence.Incidentally, the development...
Nirbhaya case death row convict Akshay Singh Thakur has petitioned Delhi’s Patiala House Court seeking a stay order on his hanging on February 1, 2020.
Coming merely two days before the four Nirbhaya case convicts are to be hanged, this is the latest in a series of petitions filed by convicts in their attempts to put off their death sentence.
Incidentally, the development has come at a time when the Supreme Court is in the process of hearing a curative petition challenging his death sentence.
It may be recalled that earlier, another convict, Vinay Sharma, had filed a mercy petition before the President, with his lawyer claiming that he had “died several times in prison” even as judicial proceedings were on.
“I am submitting this mercy petition with the hope that your good self will listen to my story when nobody did. This is the last chance I have to tell how the terrible circumstances of that fateful day in December 2012 changed my life forever. I want to tell you all this, so that you can decide whether death is the only punishment I deserve,” Vinay Sharma’s petition had stated.