Dec 16 Delhi rape: SC to hear convicts' appeal against death rap
January 02, 2017  10:01
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The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the December 16 gang rape case. Delhi Police's counsel Siddhartha Luthra earlier on December 14 told an apex court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra how the sequence of events and commission of the offence was made by the accused in the case.


The apex court had resumed the hearing in the appeals filed by the December 16 gang rape convicts, challenging the Delhi High Court's verdict that ordered four of them to the gallows considering "the case rarest of rare'.


The apex court is hearing the appeals filed by the four convicts Mukesh, Pawan, Akshay and Vijay on Mondays and Fridays every week. Earlier, the apex court had declined the request by two amici curiae senior counsel Raju Ramachandran and Sanjay R Hegde to withdraw from assisting the court in the hearing of the appeals by the convicts in the gangrape case.


Asking both to continue assisting the court in the hearing of the appeals by the four accused convicted and sentenced to death, the three judge bench comprising of Justices Dipak Misra, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan said: We can appreciate the anguish expressed by the learned amici curiae.
Six people gang raped a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern in a moving bus and beat her and her male friend.


Pic: A file picture of the gang rape victim's mother. Her parents have demanded the death sentence for all the convicts including the minor who has been released.
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