Nirbhaya rapist files curative petition with SC

January 09, 2020 12:07

One of the convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case, Vinay Kumar Sharma, filed a curative petition before the Supreme Court on Thursday, days after a Delhi court fixed the date for hanging the four convicts.

A Delhi Court had issued a death warrant against four convicts on January 7 and they are scheduled to be executed on January 22 at 7 am in the Tihar Jail premises.Besides Vinay, other convicts Pawan, Akshay, and Mukesh Singh are facing the gallows.

The court after issuing a black warrant in their name gave them two weeks' time to file both the curative and mercy petition.

A curative petition is the last judicial resort available for redressal of grievances. It is decided by the judges in-chamber.

The mercy petition, on the other hand, is filed before the President who has the power to commute it to life imprisonment. -- ANI

Image: Nirbhaya gang rape case convicts, from left, Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Singh and Pawan Gupta . Photograph: PTI Photo

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