Nirbhaya convicts move court seeking stay order on March 20 execution
New Delhi/IBNS: The lawyer of the Nirbhaya rape and murder convicts has filed a petition in a Delhi court seeking a stay on their hanging scheduled on March 20 at 5.30 am.
Resorting to yet another tactic to delay the execution of the four convicts Mukesh Singh(32), Pawan Gupta(25), Vinay Sharma(26) and Aksha Thakur(31), the convicts' counsel A P Singh, filed a curative petition on behalf of his client Pawan Kumar Gupta in the Supreme Court and a mercy petition on behalf of convict Akshay Thakur, a Times Now report said.
In his curative petition, Pawan has again claimed that he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.
On Jan 20, a bench, comprising Justices R Bhanumathi, had dismissed Pawan Kumar Gupta's plea and upheld the Delhi High Court verdict. The apex court had said there was no ground to interfere with the high court order that rejected Pawan's plea and his claim was rightly rejected by the trial court as also the High Court, media reports had said.
On Wednesday, the convicts petitioned in the court seeking a stay on their execution, as they have several legal applications and appeals pending in various courts.
Meanwhile, convict Mukesh Singh approached the Delhi Court, challenging trial court orders judgment which had dismissed his claim that he was not in International capital when the incident took place, said a Times Now report.
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