The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition by Pawan Kumar, one of the four Nirbhaya case death-row convicts, for review of its order which rejected his plea claiming he was a juvenile at the time of the offence.
The review petition was turned down by a bench of Justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna.
Last week, the apex court had rejected the plea filed by Gupta against a Delhi High Court order.
Advocate AP Singh, the counsel of the convict, had claimed that the set of documents presented to him by his client revealed that he was 17 years, 1 month and 20 days old when the paramedic student was gang-raped and brutalised on December 16, 2012. The student died at a Singapore hospital where she was airlifted for treatment.
Gupta had produced his school-leaving certificate which showed his date of birth as October 8, 1996.
The student was gang-raped in a moving bus by six men in Delhi.
One of them and key accused, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in Tihar jail during the pendency of the case.
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.