Mukesh Kumar Singh, one of the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, made a sensational allegation in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, claiming that he was sexually abused inside the Tihar jail. Mukesh, along with three other convicts, is set to be hanged on February 1.
"I was sexually abused in Tihar jail. I was forced to have sexual intercourse with co-accused 31-year-old Akshay. I was also severely beaten up many times,” Mukesh told the apex court through his lawyer Anjana Prakash.
"All these statements were given by me but these were not placed before the President," Prakash claimed in her submission before the court.
“Was he sentenced to be raped?,” she asked.
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Mukesh had moved the top court seeking a judicial review of the rejection of his mercy plea by the President.
A three-judge bench headed by Justice R. Banumathi on Tuesday reserved its verdict on Mukesh's plea and said that it will pronounce the verdict on Wednesday.
President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected the mercy petition of Mukesh on January 17.
A Delhi court had issued fresh death warrants for February 1 against the four convicts -- Vinay Sharma (26), Akshay Kumar Singh (31), Mukesh Kumar Singh (32) and Pawan Gupta (25) -- in the case.
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.
