2012 Delhi gangrape case: SC rejects convict Akshay Singh’s review plea, upholds death penalty

[Kool_SRG]

2012 Delhi gangrape case: The Supreme Court said, "Review petition is not re-hearing of appeal over and over again. We find no grounds for review of 2017 verdict upholding the death penalty of the convict."

The four convicts — Mukesh (31), Pawan Gupta (24), Vinay Sharma (25) and Akshay Kumar Singh (33). (File)

 

 

The Supreme Court Wednesday rejected the review petition filed by Akshay KumarSingh, one of the four death-row convicts in the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape case. Akshay’s counsel has sought 3-weeks time to file the mercy petition before President, but Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Delhi government, said that the law allows only one-week time for it. In his review plea, convict Akshay wanted the sentence commuted as other countries have also done away with the death penalty.

The newly constituted three-judge bench, headed by Justice R Banumathi and also comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna heard the petition. The bench said, “Review petition is not re-hearing of appeal over and over again. We find no grounds for review of 2017 verdict upholding the death penalty of the convict.” The court said it had considered aggravating and mitigating circumstances.

The hearing comes a day after Chief Justice of India S A Bobde recused himself on personal grounds from hearing the plea.

During the hearing, the convict’s lawyer A P Singh told the bench that Akshay has been condemned to death only because he hails from a poor background. He cited media and political pressure which led to the conviction of his client. Replying to him, the bench said that all these have been argued before.

Arguing against the death sentence given to Akshay, his counsel referred to other countries doing away with the death penalty. Tushar Mehta opposed the contention saying as long as it remains in statute books, it is the law.

Mehta told the bench that there are certain crimes where “humanity cries” and this is one of them. “There are certain crimes where God would feel ashamed in not saving the child (victim) and in creating such a monster. The death penalty does not deserve to be set aside for such crimes,” Mehta said.

He also said that convicts in the Nirbhaya case are making concerted efforts to “delay the inevitable” and the law must take its own course as soon as possible.

Advocate A P Singh had told the court that the age of citizens in Delhi-NCR is reducing due to air and water pollution and there was no need to award death penalty to the convict.

Meanwhile, after the Supreme court hearing, a Delhi court is also scheduled to hear at 2 pm a plea seeking issuance of death warrants against the four convicts. All convicts will be produced through video conferencing before the court of ASJ, Satish Kumar Arora.

On December 13, Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora had said he will wait for the outcome of the review petition hearing in the top court, and issued fresh notices to the four convicts and their lawyers to appear before the court on December 18. “At least I have to wait till the time, the review is pending. My view is that once the review is pending before the Supreme Court, let’s wait for the outcome,” the judge had said.

The Supreme Court has already dismissed, more than a year ago on July 9, 2018, the review pleas filed by Vinay and another two of the convicts, Mukesh and Pawan. A fifth accused, Ram, hanged himself in his cell in Tihar, while the sixth, who was a juvenile at the time of the crime, was sent to a reform facility.

On December 6, the Union Home Ministry sent the Delhi government’s recommendation to reject the mercy plea of Vinay, one of the four convicts, to President Ram Nath Kovind.

The convicts, except Akshay, can still file curative pleas in the top court against their conviction and death penalty in the case. After exhausting the remedy of filing curative pleas, the convicts can send their mercy pleas to the President. In case the pleas are dismissed, the authorities can seek death warrants from a local court to execute them.

The 23-year-old paramedic student was gangraped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a moving bus in south Delhi by six persons before being thrown out on the road. She died on December 29, 2012, at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.

In September 2013, a fast-track court held the four convicts guilty of 13 offences including gangrape, unnatural sexual assault and murder of the woman, and attempt to murder her male friend.

[Kool_SRG]

So its clear now that Death Penalty has been confirmed for all 4 Convicts 

[Biskot2]

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[libraguy863]

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[Kool_SRG]

1 hour ago, Biskot2 said:

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[aakathaai789]

1 hour ago, Kool_SRG said:

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[ChinnaBhasha]

6 minutes ago, aakathaai789 said:

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[aakathaai789]

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[Kool_SRG]

10 minutes ago, aakathaai789 said:

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[Kool_SRG]

Just now, aakathaai789 said:

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[aakathaai789]

6 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

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Malli Aah tihar jail vaallaki chepparu naluguruki ee vishayam cheppi vaalla response ento telusukomannaru..saagadestunnaru..

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[babu_bangaram]

One of the convicts who was juvenile (17 yrs) at the time of the incident was jailed in juvenile home for 4 yrs and is released and out there open ..........