Barely a few hours after one of the Delhi gang rape convicts sentenced to death, Vinay Kumar Sharma, filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court on Thursday; another convict Mukesh Singh also followed his example in a last bid to escape the hanging scheduled for January 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe petitioner\u2019s socio-economic circumstances, number of dependants including ailing parents, good conduct in jail and the probability of reformation have not been adequately considered leading to gross miscarriage of justice,\u201d the plea said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The petition also referred to various studies across the world and data by the National Crime Records Bureau to argue that the death penalty would not have any deterrent effect on society, one of the grounds on which he was sentenced to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The plea claimed that the court had relied on factors such as \u201ccollective conscience of society\u201d and \u201cpublic opinion\u201d in deciding the sentence to be imposed on all the convicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe impugned judgment is bad in law as subsequent judgments of the apex court have definitely changed the law on death sentence in India allowing several convicts similarly placed as him to have their death sentence commuted to life imprisonment,\u201d the plea read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The petition said that after pronouncement of the apex court\u2019s judgment in 2017, there have been as many as 17 cases involving rape and murder in which various three-judge benches of the top court have commuted the death sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2012, a 23-year-old paramedic student, referred to as Nirbhaya, was gang raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, in a moving bus in south Delhi\u2019s Munirka by six people before being thrown out on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On July 9, 2018, the apex court had dismissed the review petitions filed by the other three convicts in the case, saying no grounds have been made out by them for review of the 2017 verdict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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