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 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
Delhi is a gas chamber then why hand down death penalty, said Akshya said while moving the SC.
"Everyone is aware of what is happening in Delhi-NCR with regard to water and air. Life is becoming short, then why death penalty," asked Akshay in the review petition filed through advocate AP Singh.
The apex court, on July 9, 2018, had dismissed the review pleas filed by three other convicts in the case.
Akshya, 31, who had not filed the review plea earlier with other three convicts, has now moved the apex court with the petition, his lawyer A P Singh said.
Akshya pleaded that the air quality of Delhi has deteriorated, and the capital city has literally become a gas chamber. Even the water in the city is also full of poison, the plea claimed
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.
The top court had earlier dismissed the review pleas by Mukesh (30), Pawan Kumar Gupta (23) and Vinay Sharma (24), saying no grounds have been made out by them for review of the 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.
One of the accused in the case, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail here
A juvenile, who was among the accused, was convicted by a juvenile justice board. He was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term.
Convict shifted to Tihar Jail
Meanwhile, one of the convicts, who was lodged in the Mandoli Jail here, has been shifted to Tihar.
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, an officer said.
(With inputs from PTI.)
