[ By Bobby Anthony ]The Supreme Court will hear the curative petitions filed by two convicts, on death row, in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case on January 14.A five-judge bench comprising Justice NV Ramana, Justice Arun Mishra, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, Justice R Banumathi and Justice Ashok Bhushan will hear the curative petitions filed by death row convicts Vinay Sharma and...
The Supreme Court will hear the curative petitions filed by two convicts, on death row, in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case on January 14.
A five-judge bench comprising Justice NV Ramana, Justice Arun Mishra, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, Justice R Banumathi and Justice Ashok Bhushan will hear the curative petitions filed by death row convicts Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh, who had moved the Supreme Court recently.
Mukesh Singh filed the plea first, after which fellow convict Vinay Sharma too moved the court.
A Delhi-based trial court, while issuing death warrants against the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case had observed that “despite being afforded sufficient time and opportunity”, the convicts had not exercised their legal remedies.
The Delhi court had fixed January 22 and 7 am as the date and time of execution of the four convicts in the case. After a 23-year-old woman was gang-raped and tortured on December 16, 2012, leading to her death, all six accused were arrested and charged with sexual assault as well as murder.
One of the accused was a minor and appeared before a juvenile justice court, while another accused committed suicide in Tihar Jail. The four convicts were sentenced to death by a trial court in September 2013, and the verdict confirmed by the Delhi High Court in March 2014 and upheld in May 2017 by the Supreme Court, which also dismissed their review petitions.
In his curative petition convict Vinay Sharma has stated that his entire family had suffered due to the criminal proceedings.
“The petitioner (sharma) is not the only person being punished; his entire family has suffered greatly as a result of the criminal proceedings. The family faced societal wrath and humiliation for no fault of theirs. The petitioner's parents are old and extremely poor. The case has been a huge drain on their resources and now they are left almost empty handed,” Sharma’s curative petition filed through senior advocate Adhis C Aggarwala and Advocate A P Singh has stated.