New delhi sources stated that the supreme court on monday dismissed the curative petition filed by pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. A five judge bench headed by Justice N v Ramana, which considered the curative plea in-chamber, also rejected Pawan's application seeking stay on the execution of death sentence which is scheduled for Tuesday.
The bench, also comprising Justices Arun Mishra, R F Nariman, R Banumathi and ashok Bhushan, said the application for oral hearing is rejected. The application for stay of execution of death sentence is also rejected. The curative petition is dismissed. In his curative plea, pawan had sought commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment and he had also sought a stay on the execution of black warrant issued by the trial court for the hanging.
Moreover the trial court had on february 17 issued fresh date for execution of death warrants for tuesday at 6 am for the four convicts mukesh Kumar Singh (32), pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and akshay kumar (31) in the case. Apparently the mercy petitions of three convicts mukesh, Vinay and akshay have already been dismissed by the President. Perhaps the apex court had earlier dismissed separate pleas filed by mukesh and Vinay challenging the rejection of their mercy petitions by the President.
