‘Air, Water In Delhi Already Toxic, Why The Death Penalty’, Pleads Convict In Nirbhaya Case
One of the accused in the case, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail here
Mumbai: One of the four convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking review of its 2017 judgment handing down the death penalty to all of them in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case. The apex court, on July 9, 2018, had dismissed the review pleas filed by three other convicts in the case.
Akshaya, 31, who had not filed the review plea earlier with other three convicts, has now moved the apex court with the petition, his lawyer AP Singh said.
AP Singh, the lawyer representing Akshay filed a review petition in the Supreme Court where he is claiming that his client was not even present in Delhi on December 16, 2012. This is the same night when five men and one minor gang-raped and mutilated a 23-year-old paramedical student onboard a moving bus. While addressing the media, they said that the accused were at the hometown at we have all the proofs to prove it.
In his petition, Singh has said the quality of air and water in the national capital is leading to a reduction of life span.
“Why the death penalty? when age is reducing, it is mentioned in our Ved, Purans and Upnishads that in the age of Satyug people lived the life of thousand years. Even in Treta Yuga man used to live a thousand years. In the age of Dwapar, they used to live for hundreds of years. But now it is Kalyug, in this era, the age of human beings have reduced much. It has now come to 50 – 60 years, and rarely we listen of a person who is the age of 100 years,” the petition states.
“It is important to pertain here that Air Quality of Delhi-NCR and the metro city is burst and like a gas chamber and not only this, the water of Delhi-NCR and the metro city is also full of poison, this fact proved by the Govt. of India in its report, which was submitted in the Parliament House,” it adds
This comes at a time when sources suggest that the Tihar jail is preparing to execute all four men awarded the death penalty in 2012 gang-rape case. The top court had earlier dismissed the review pleas by Mukesh (30), Pawan Gupta (23) and Vinay Sharma (24), saying no grounds have been made out by them for review of the verdict.
The jail is waiting for a ‘black warrant’ from the court which would allow it to execute the four convicts in the horrific gang-rape case which shook the conscience of India in 2012.
One of the accused in the case, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail here.
Meanwhile, parents of the victim continue to demand that their wait for justice is over and those convicted of brutalising their young daughter should be hanged as soon as possible.
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