Nirbhaya gangrape case: Supreme Court upholds death penalty of rapists
The fourth
death row convict has not filed a review petition against the apex court's
judgement
Current Affairs News:
The Supreme
Court on Monday dismissed review petitions filed by three convicts in the 2012
Delhi gangrape and murder case, upholding a death sentence handed to them.
A
Bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices R Banumathi and Ashok
Bhushan delivered the judgment on the pleas of Mukesh (29), Pawan Gupta (22)
and Vinay Sharma (23) in the case that rocked the nation six years ago and
paved way for stringent laws against sexual harassment in the country.
The
fourth death row convict, Akshay Kumar Singh (31), has not filed a review
petition against the apex court's May 5, 2017, judgment.
The
Supreme Court had said the "brutal, barbaric and diabolic nature" of
the crime could create a "tsunami of shock" to destroy a civilised
society.
In
its 2017 verdict, the apex court had upheld the capital punishment awarded to
them by the Delhi High Court and a trial court in the case of the gangrape and
murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student on December 16, 2012.
She
was gangraped on December 16 night inside a running bus by six persons and
severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road. She succumbed to her
injuries on December 29, 2012, at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
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