{"id":318809,"date":"2020-01-14T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T10:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318809"},"modified":"2020-01-14T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T10:17:06","slug":"supreme-court-dismisses-curative-pleas-filed-by-2-nirbhaya-case-convicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-dismisses-curative-pleas-filed-by-2-nirbhaya-case-convicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court dismisses curative pleas filed by 2 Nirbhaya case convicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299685 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2.jpg 636w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/>The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected curative petitions filed by two of the four death-row convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">A bench of Justices NV Ramana, Arun Mishra, RF Nariman, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan heard the curative petitions filed by Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The curative petition was the last judicial recourse for the two after a Delhi court on January 7 issued a death warrant in their name and announced January 22 as the date of their execution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">If curative petitions are rejected, a mercy petition before the president is the only option left for the convicts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Of the four convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh and Pawan Gupta &#8212; the two other convicts &#8212; have yet to file curative petitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Top Court had earlier rejected the review pleas filed by all four convicts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">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-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">She passed away at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore while undergoing the treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected curative petitions filed by two of the four death-row convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. A bench of Justices NV Ramana, Arun Mishra, RF Nariman, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan heard the curative petitions filed by Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Kumar. The curative petition was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3177,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318809"}],"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=318809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318810,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318809\/revisions\/318810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}