The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on Monday its verdict on the review pleas of three out of the four convicts sent to death row in the 'Nirbhaya' gang-rape and murder case.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices R. Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan is expected to deliver its judgement on the pleas of Mukesh (29), Pawan Gupta (22) and Vinay Sharma (23).
The fourth death row convict, Akshay Kumar Singh (31), had not filed a review petition against the Supreme Court's May 5 2017 judgement upholding the death penalty in the Nirbhaya case.
Advocate A.P. Singh, representing Akshay Kumar Singh, said, "Akshay has not filed a review petition yet. We will be filing it."
The Supreme Court in its 2017 verdict had upheld capital punishment awarded to them by the Delhi High Court and the trial court in the case of gang-rape and assault of a 23-year-old paramedic student on December 16, 2012 in Delhi. The victim was referred to as Nirbhaya by the media.
Nirbhaya was gang-raped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a running bus in South Delhi by six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road. Nirbhaya succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
One of the accused in the Nirbhaya case, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in Tihar jail.
A juvenile, who was among the accused in the Nirbhaya case, was convicted by a juvenile justice board. He was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term.
In its judgement on the Nirbhaya case, the Supreme Court had said that the "brutal, barbaric and diabolic nature" of the crime could create a "tsunami of shock" to destroy a civilised society.