‪‪2012 Delhi gang rape‬, ‪Delhi‬‬

2012 Delhi gangrape: 2 of 4 convicts move SC to review verdict

New Delhi: Two of the death row convicts on December 16, 2012, gangrape and murder case on Saturday moved to the Supreme Court for its verdict.

The review petition by convicts Vinay Sharma and Pawan Kumar Gupta came after the top court on December 12 completed the hearing on the review plea filed by another death row convict Mukesh.

A 23-year-old paramedic student was gang-raped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a moving bus in South Delhi by a gang of six people and severely assaulted before being thrown out naked.

She succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012, at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.

The review plea, filed by advocate AP Singh for two of the convicts, claimed that death penalty was a premeditated and "cold-blooded murder" of a human being by the name of justice.

It said the investigation into the matter was not only flawed but also unreliable as many facts of the investigation from the victim of the death declaration of the victim.

The high court had on December 12 granted him permission to file a review petition for another convict Akshay Singh and the matter for hearing on January 22.

Mukesh, (29), Pawan (22), Vinay Sharma (23) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31), saying "the cruel, barbaric and diabolic nature", the Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence to the four convicts. of the crime could create a "tsunami of shock" to destroy a civilized society.


Another accused in the case, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail, while a convicted teen has come out of the reformation home after a three-year term.