Another convict in Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, Pawan Gupta, on Friday filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against the decision dismissing his plea claiming that he was a juvenile at the time of the offence, in December 2012.
Gupta also sought a direction restraining the authorities from executing the death penalty which is scheduled for tomorrow at 6 am.
The Supreme Court had earlier rejected Gupta’s claim of juvenility against the Delhi High Court order. The top court said that the issue had already been decided on the basis of evidence.
Pawan had claimed that he was 17 years, 1 month and 20 days old at the time he committed the offence of gang-rape and murdering the paramedic student. That’s why he should be considered as a juvenile in the case for all matters.
He also produced the school leaving certificate which showed his date of birth as October 8, 1996.
A Delhi court earlier this week had dismissed the review petition filed by Gupta’s father questioning the credibility of the sole witness in the case, friend of the 23-year-old student, who was accompanying her in the bus when the gruesome incident took place, was tutored and couldn’t be relied upon.
On December 16, 2012, a paramedical student was gang-raped in a moving bus by six men in Delhi. The student died at a Singapore hospital where she was airlifted for treatment. One of the key accused, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail during the pendency of the case, while the sixth was a minor at the time of the commission of the crime and was let out after serving a three-year remand in a juvenile justice home.