NE LEGAL BUREAU
NEW DELHI, JAN 14
Mukesh Singh, one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case has filed a mercy petition to the President Ram Nath Kovind.
If his appeal is rejected, he, along with three other convicts in the case, will be hanged at 7 am on January 22. The three other convicts are yet to file any petition to the President.
Mukesh Singh and Vinay Sharma’s last legal appeal against their death sentence, a curative petition, was dismissed by a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court today afternoon.
The bench headed by Justice N.V. Ramana said “no case can be made out within the parameters indicated in the decision of this court”.
In their appeal, the convicts had asked for a stay on their execution. They had also asked for an oral hearing, instead of the in-chamber hearing according to procedure. The judges had rejected both appals and dismissed the petitions.
Last week, a Delhi court passed an order for execution of the men and set the date. The four, along with two others, are responsible for the horrific rape of a 23-year-old medical student six years ago, which shook the country and led to multiple changes in the legal and security system
