1 of 4 convicts moves SC seeking review of death penalty in Nirbhaya rape case
   Date :11-Dec-2019

1 of 4 convicts moves SC
 
NEW DELHI :
 
ONE of the four convicts, Akshya Kumar Singh, moved the Supreme Court Tuesday seeking review of its 2017 judgement handing down death penalty to all of them in the sensational Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, saying “the executions only kill criminal, not the crime”. The 23-year-old paramedic student was brutally gang raped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a running bus in South Delhi by six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road. She succumbed to injuries on December 29, 2012 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
 
Akshya, 33, who had not filed the review plea earlier with other three convicts, has now moved the apex court with the petition through his lawyer A P Singh and fervently pleaded against his possible execution. “The State must not simply execute people to prove that it is attacking terror or violence against women. It must persistently work towards systematic reforms to being about change. Executions only kill the criminal, not the crime...,” the review plea said.
 
The top court, in July 9 last year, had dismissed the review pleas by Mukesh (30), Pawan Gupta (23) and Vinay Sharma (24) in the case, saying no grounds have been made out by them for review of the 2017 verdict. The apex court in its 2017 verdict had upheld the capital punishment awarded to them by the Delhi High Court and the trial court in the case of gangrape and murder of the woman here. 
 
1 of the convicts shifted to Tihar
 
NEW DELHI :
 
ONE of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape-and-murder case, who was lodged in the Mandoli Jail here, has been shifted to Tihar, jail officials said on Tuesday. Pawan Kumar Gupta, who was lodged in the Mandoli Jail, was shifted to Tihar recently, Director General Sandeep Goel said. Gupta is lodged in Jail No. 2 of Tihar, where two other convicts in the case -- Mukesh Singh and Akshay -- are also lodged, while Vinay Sharma is in Jail No. 4 of Tihar, another jail official said.