A Delhi court on Saturday disposed off a plea by the lawyer of the death row convicts in the 2012 gang rape and murder case, seeking additional documents after the court noted that no documents are pending and all the documents have been supplied.
Advocate A P Singh representing the three December 16 gang-rape case convicts – Vinay Sharma (26), Akshay Kumar (31) and Pawan Gupta (25) – had moved the court on Friday alleging that the Tihar jail authorities had not handed over certain documents needed to file their mercy petition and curative petition. The fourth convict in the case, Mukesh Singh (32), has already exhausted all legal remedies.
The prosecution informedthe court that Tihar jail authorities have already supplied all relevant documents sought by convicts’ lawyer.
Singh had claimed that that despite repeated requests, Tihar jail authorities have not supplied the documents on time leading to a delay in filing the different legal options for the death row convicts who are scheduled to be executed on February 1.
Advocate A P Singh had filed the application alleging that despite repeated requests, Tihar jail authorities have not supplied the documents on time leading to a delay in filing the different legal options for the death row convicts who are scheduled to be executed on February 1.
The Supreme Court recently dismissed the curative petitions of other two convicts — Vinay and Mukesh Singh (32) while the President rejected Mukesh’s mercy petition earlier this month.
The four men were sentenced to death the gang rape of a 23-year-old paramedic student on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, in a moving bus in south Delhi by six people before she was thrown out on the road. She died a fortnight later at a Singapore hospital.
A fifth accused, Ram Singh, committed suicide in Tihar jail while the sixth who was a juvenile at the time of the crime was sent to a reformation home and released after three years.
The victim’s mother had earlier accused the convicts of delaying tactics and asked whether they were the only one who had rights.
