The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, has rejected the mercy petition preferred by one the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case. .The President's decision to reject the mercy petition preferred by Mukesh a few days earlier was communicated today by the Deputy Secretary to the Union Government today. .… the Hon’ble President of India in exercise of the powers under Article 72 of the Constitution of India has REJECTED the Mercy Petition of the convict Mukesh Kumar S/o Shri Manga Lal presently confined at Tihar Central Jail, Delhi. The convict may be informed of the decision of the Hon’ble President of India.Letter dated January 17, 2020.Mukesh had preferred a mercy plea before the President of India, soon after the dismissal of his curative petition by the Supreme Court..On January 7, the warrant to execute the death penalty for all four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case was issued by Additional Sessions Judge at the Patiala House Court of Delhi, Satish Arora. As per the warrant, the four convicts were to be hanged to death on January 22 at 7AM in Delhi's Tihar Jail..The latest development comes close in the heels of a petition to postpone the execution of the death warrant in view of the mercy plea preferred before the President. The petition to postpone the execution of the sentence was presented before the Additional Sessions Court Court after the Delhi High Court redirected the petition before the appropriate Court. .Nirbhaya: Emotions cannot take over the law of the land, Adv Vrinda Grover tells Court.On December 16, 2012, six men in Delhi had brutally gang-raped a young woman, later named ‘Nirbhaya’, in a moving bus. The victim succumbed to her injuries two weeks later at a hospital in Singapore. The six accused were apprehended by the police..Of the six accused, the main accused committed suicide in Tihar jail during the course of the trial and the juvenile accused was sentenced to three years in a remand home upon conviction. The remaining four were handed a death penalty by the Additional Sessions Judge..The four convicts had then approached the Delhi High Court in appeal. After the High Court upheld the lower court verdict, the Supreme Court too upheld the death penalty in May 2017.In July 2018, the Supreme Court dismissed review petitions filed by three of the accused i.e Mukesh, Vinay and Pawan. The fourth convict, Akshay's review petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court in December last year..[Read the Letter intimating the rejection of Mukesh Kumar's Mercy Petition]
The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, has rejected the mercy petition preferred by one the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case. .The President's decision to reject the mercy petition preferred by Mukesh a few days earlier was communicated today by the Deputy Secretary to the Union Government today. .… the Hon’ble President of India in exercise of the powers under Article 72 of the Constitution of India has REJECTED the Mercy Petition of the convict Mukesh Kumar S/o Shri Manga Lal presently confined at Tihar Central Jail, Delhi. The convict may be informed of the decision of the Hon’ble President of India.Letter dated January 17, 2020.Mukesh had preferred a mercy plea before the President of India, soon after the dismissal of his curative petition by the Supreme Court..On January 7, the warrant to execute the death penalty for all four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case was issued by Additional Sessions Judge at the Patiala House Court of Delhi, Satish Arora. As per the warrant, the four convicts were to be hanged to death on January 22 at 7AM in Delhi's Tihar Jail..The latest development comes close in the heels of a petition to postpone the execution of the death warrant in view of the mercy plea preferred before the President. The petition to postpone the execution of the sentence was presented before the Additional Sessions Court Court after the Delhi High Court redirected the petition before the appropriate Court. .Nirbhaya: Emotions cannot take over the law of the land, Adv Vrinda Grover tells Court.On December 16, 2012, six men in Delhi had brutally gang-raped a young woman, later named ‘Nirbhaya’, in a moving bus. The victim succumbed to her injuries two weeks later at a hospital in Singapore. The six accused were apprehended by the police..Of the six accused, the main accused committed suicide in Tihar jail during the course of the trial and the juvenile accused was sentenced to three years in a remand home upon conviction. The remaining four were handed a death penalty by the Additional Sessions Judge..The four convicts had then approached the Delhi High Court in appeal. After the High Court upheld the lower court verdict, the Supreme Court too upheld the death penalty in May 2017.In July 2018, the Supreme Court dismissed review petitions filed by three of the accused i.e Mukesh, Vinay and Pawan. The fourth convict, Akshay's review petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court in December last year..[Read the Letter intimating the rejection of Mukesh Kumar's Mercy Petition]
