{"id":227272,"date":"2020-03-19T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=227272"},"modified":"2020-03-19T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:33:22","slug":"nirbhaya-pawan-guptas-curative-petition-dismissed-all-4-convicts-scheduled-to-be-hanged-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/03\/19\/nirbhaya-pawan-guptas-curative-petition-dismissed-all-4-convicts-scheduled-to-be-hanged-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirbhaya| Pawan Gupta&#8217;s curative petition dismissed; All 4 convicts scheduled to be hanged tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court: <\/strong>The Court has dismissed the curative petition of Pawan Gupta, one of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, who had moved the court against the dismissal of his review plea. In his petition, Pawan has claimed that he was juvenile at the time of the crime in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as Gupta, along with three other convicts, Mukesh Singh, Akshay Singh Thakur, and Vinay Sharma. are scheduled to be hanged on March 20 at 5.30 am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three of the four death row convicts in the Delhi gangrape case, including Gupta, had also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/03\/16\/nirbhaya-case-convicts-approach-international-court-of-justice-to-stay-on-execution-of-death-sentence\/\">approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) earlier this month<\/a>, seeking a stay on the execution of their death sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 23-year-old paramedic student, referred to as Nirbhaya, was gang raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 in a moving bus in south Delhi by six people before being thrown out on the road. She died on December 29, 2012 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. Besides Mukesh, three others \u2013 Akshay, Vinay, and Pawan are facing the gallows for the heinous crime that shook the entire nation. One of the six accused in the case, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On July 9, 2018 , the Court had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/07\/09\/review-petition-of-the-nirbhaya-gangrape-convicts-dismissed-supreme-court\/\">dismissed the review pleas filed by the three convicts in the case<\/a>, saying no grounds have been made out by them for review of the 2017 verdict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On December 18, 2019,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/12\/18\/nirbhaya-case-sc-rejects-review-petition-filed-by-the-fourth-death-row-convict-akshay-kumar-singh\/\">the 3-judge bench of R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna, JJ rejected the review petition of the last convict, Akshay Kumar Singh<\/a>, seeking modification and leniency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/01\/21\/nirbhaya-casesc-yet-again-rejects-pawan-kumars-plea-of-juvenility\/\">On January 21, 2020<\/a>, the 3-judge bench of R. Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna, JJ had dismissed the Special Leave Petition filed by Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya Gang rape case where he \u201creagitated\u201d the plea of juvenility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A juvenile, who was among the accused, was convicted by a juvenile justice board and was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term. Two of the convicts are yet to file curative petitions before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another accused, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail in March 2013 during the trial. Another convict, who was a minor at the time of the crime, was sent to a reform facility and released after three years of the crime.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Source: ANI)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/07\/09\/nirbhaya-gangrape-case-story-from-a-different-world-where-humanity-has-been-treated-with-irreverence\/\">Nirbhaya Gangrape Case: Story From A Different World Where Humanity Has Been Treated With Irreverence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court: The Court has dismissed the curative petition of Pawan Gupta, one of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":154914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[30930,33715,2896,16531,39695],"class_list":["post-227272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-convicts","tag-curative-petition","tag-Death_sentence","tag-international-court-of-justice","tag-nirbhaya-gang-rape-and-murder-case"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nirbhaya| Pawan Gupta&#039;s curative petition dismissed; 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The application for stay of execution of the death sentence is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":227342,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/03\/20\/live-nirbhaya-case-special-bench-to-sit-for-hearing-at-supreme-court-after-dismissal-of-petition-on-stay-of-execution-by-delhi-hc\/","url_meta":{"origin":227272,"position":3},"title":"[BREAKING] [Midnight Hearing of the Gruesome &#8211; Nirbhaya Case] |Petition of death row convict Pawan Gupta against rejection of his mercy petition and seeking stay on execution &#8212; dismissed; Convicts to be hanged at 5.30 am today","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"March 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The convicts are to be hanged at 5.30 a.m. and the legal remedies in the Nirbhaya Verdict are still being availed by the convicts. Special Bench to sit for hearing at Supreme Court after dismissal of petition on stay of execution by Delhi HC. Bench of R. 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