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President Rejects Nirbhaya Convict Mukeshs Mercy Petition, Death Warrant Final: Nirbhaya Case Update

By LawStreet News Network      17 January, 2020 12:01 PM      1 Comments
President Rejects Nirbhaya Convict Mukeshs Mercy Petition, Death Warrant Final: Nirbhaya Case Update

The first mercy plea in the Nirbhaya case has been rejected by the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind today (January 17, 2020). Fate has been sealed for one of the three convicts. Mukesh Singh will be hanged till death.

Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case had filed a mercy plea before the President on 14 January, 2020. Singh filed the mercy plea with President on the day his curative petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court.

Earlier in the matter, curative petitions were filed by two rape-murder convicts namely, Mukesh Singh and Vinay Sharma on January 13, 2020. Other convicts in the rape-murder case namely Pawan Gupta and Akshay Kumar Singh hadnt filed curative petitions. 

The four convicts gang-raped and murdered a 23 year old woman in a moving bus in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. The paramedic student was raped on the intervening night of December 16, 2012, inside a running bus in south Delhi by six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road. She died on December 29, 2012, at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, where she was airlifted from Delhi for treatment.

Seeing the ongoing trend of petitions that are being filed by convicts and the time that it might take to consider them, it is likely that the date of the execution of death sentence might be postponed. Such a postponement of punishment would bring about public dismay as it has already been seven years since the heinous crime took place. The delay in punishment can be attributed to the problems with our criminal justice system which has not been amended in entirety with laws dating back to the British era. Despite the increase in sexual offences, much emphasis has not been given to it if the Indian Penal Code is considered.



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Dr Barbara Thyab Ali Jan 17, 2020

Death to all the four is a must for this most wicked and evil manner in which they raped and tortured and threw the innocenct girl out of that running vehicle.. left to bleed to death... no excuses to be accepted ... time up to pout them four to death ofr this death of this innocent lady. Dr BTA

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