{"id":319506,"date":"2020-01-30T02:31:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319506"},"modified":"2020-01-30T02:31:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T02:31:17","slug":"sc-to-hear-nirbhaya-convict-akshay-singhs-curative-petition-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-to-hear-nirbhaya-convict-akshay-singhs-curative-petition-today\/","title":{"rendered":"SC to hear Nirbhaya convict Akshay Singh&#8217;s curative petition today"},"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-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear the Nirbhaya rape and murder case convict Akshay Kumar Singh&#8217;s curative plea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Akshay Singh approached the Top Court on Wednesday with a curative petition which is listed for consideration before a bench at 1 pm today, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The plea of Akshay Singh will be heard by the Supreme Court judges in their chambers and not in an open court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If Akshay Singh&#8217;s plea is dismissed, the death row convict will have the option to move a mercy petition before President Ram Nath Kovind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is the third convict to move a curative plea after Mukesh Singh and Vinay Kumar Sharma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The hanging of all four convicts in the case is to take place on February 1 at 6 am, as per the new directive of the court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Four convicts, Vinay, Akshay, Pawan and Mukesh were convicted and sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old paramedic student in a moving bus in the national capital on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012.<\/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>The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear the Nirbhaya rape and murder case convict Akshay Kumar Singh&#8217;s curative plea. Akshay Singh approached the Top Court on Wednesday with a curative petition which is listed for consideration before a bench at 1 pm today, sources said. The plea of Akshay Singh will be heard by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3177,1059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319506"}],"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=319506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319507,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319506\/revisions\/319507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}