{"id":318020,"date":"2019-12-17T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318020"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:00:46","slug":"nirbhaya-case-cji-sa-bobde-recuses-from-hearing-review-plea-of-convict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nirbhaya-case-cji-sa-bobde-recuses-from-hearing-review-plea-of-convict\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirbhaya case: CJI SA Bobde recuses from hearing review plea of convict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315768 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bobte1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1.jpg 523w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1-485x360.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/>Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde on Tuesday recused himself from hearing the review petition in Nirbhaya case and adjourned the matter till Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A new bench will begin hearing in the case on Wednesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the five men convicted for the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi in 2012, had sought review of his death penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumar was the last to file a review petition on the death penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Court had already rejected the pleas filed by other convicts &#8211; Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 23-year-old paramedic student was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 in a moving bus in the national capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One of the six men accused was a juvenile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She passed away at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore while undergoing the treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde on Tuesday recused himself from hearing the review petition in Nirbhaya case and adjourned the matter till Wednesday. A new bench will begin hearing in the case on Wednesday morning. Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the five men convicted for the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3177,11370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318021,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318020\/revisions\/318021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}