SC To Hear Review Plea Filed By Nirbhaya Case Death Row Convicts Tomorrow

A three judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra will hear the review petition filed by death row convicts in the sensational Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case tomorrow at 3:30PM.

Besides the CJI, the bench comprises of justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan who had confirmed on May 5 this year the death sentence awarded to Mukesh, Pawan,Vinay and Akshay by the trial court and Delhi High Court

In the review plea filed through Advocate M L Sharma, Mukesh contended that the apex court had not considered many issues that he had raised during the trial and subsequent appeal.

The apex court had upheld the death penalty to the four convicts in the case saying that the “brutal, barbaric and diabolic nature” of the crime could create a “tsunami of shock” to destroy a civilised society.

SC had termed the incident as “Tsunami of shock” while describing the nature and gravity of offence committed by the convicts.

In a voluminous judgement (430 pages), the bench held the attitude of offenders as “beastial proclivity” and said “It sounds like a  story from a different world where humanity is treated with irreverence.”.

On a cold winter night of December 16, 2012, five adult men and a juvenile lured the 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist and her male friend onto a bus in Delhi, where they repeatedly raped the woman and beat both with a metal bar before dumping them on a road. The woman, later dubbed Nirbhaya (meaning fearless), died two weeks later of her injuries. Four of the adults were sentenced to death while the fifth hanged himself in prison.

On August 31, 2013, the juvenile was convicted and sentenced to three years in a reformation home. He was released in December 2015.