The advocate appearing for two of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape-and-murder case on Friday moved a Delhi court, alleging that Tihar jail authorities are delaying in handing over certain documents.
Advocate A.P. Singh moved an application, alleging that the jail authorities are yet to release the documents that are required to file curative petitions for Akshay Kumar Singh (31)and Pawan Singh (25). The plea is likely to be taken up for hearing on Saturday.
also read
- Woman kidnapped, gang-raped in Ghaziabad, DCW seeks strict action
- Nirbhaya-style horror in UP: Woman gang-raped, killed; FIR against temple priest
- Nirbhaya's father launches petition asking men not to be silent spectators
- Devil's advocate: How A.P. Singh made every effort to save Nirbhaya convicts
- Why Nirbhaya case hangings are not likely to be deterrent to crimes against women
The Supreme Court recently dismissed the curative petition for the other two convicts—Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Mukesh Singh (32).
The hanging of all four is to take place on February 1 at 6am as per a court order.
A 23-year-old paramedic student, referred to as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped and brutally assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, in a moving bus in south Delhi by six people before she was thrown out on the road. She died of her injuries later that month.
