 filed by Nirbhaya case convict Pawan Kumar Gupta, claiming that he was a juvenile at the time of committing the offence. ){kind=link}
The Supreme Court today rejected the plea filed by Nirbhaya case convict Pawan Kumar Gupta against the Delhi High order, claiming that he was a juvenile at the time of offence.
The Prosecutor alleged that the convict has been treated as a major throughout the trial before all judicial forums so far. This is another tactics by the defense to prevent him from facing the gallows, alleged prosecution.
Advocate AP Singh, counsel of Gupta, claimed that the set of documents presented to him by his client revealed that he was 17 years, 1 month and 20 days old at the time of gangrape and murder of the paramedic student. That’s why he should be considered as a juvenile in the case for all matters.
He produced the school leaving certificate which showed his date of birth as October 8, 1996.
Gupta moved the court on Friday, after Delhi High Court rejected his claim of juvenility while giving its verdict.
Gupta sought a direction restraining the authorities from executing the death penalty which is now scheduled for 6 am on February 1. A Delhi Court issued a fresh death warrant after President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition on Friday.
He, along with the three other convicts are scheduled to hang till death on February 1, 2020, at 6 am.
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 them, 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 commission of the crime and was let out after serving a three-year remand in a juvenile justice home.