President Kovind Rejects Mercy Petition Of Nirbhaya Convict Akshay Thakur

Mumbai: Official sources said that President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday rejected the mercy petition of Akshay Thakur, one of the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.

On 1 February, Thakur filed a mercy petition before the President of India.

Thakur was the third convict in the mercy petition filed before the President. Earlier, Kovind dismissed the mercy petitions of convicts Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh.

A Delhi court had earlier issued a death warrant for the execution of the convicts – Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma on 1 February.

Earlier in the day, the Delhi High Court gave the convicts of four deaths a week to take advantage of all legal remedies.

Also Read: Third Nirbhaya Convict Files Mercy Petition Before President

A single bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait said that proceedings against the culprits for the death warrant will be initiated after a week.

The High Court observed that as per Delhi Jail Rule if mercy petition is presented, the convict should be given a period of 14 days after the mercy petition is dismissed.

The warrant of death against all four convicts cannot be executed separately. A case of gang-rape and brutality of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a bus on the night of 16 December 2012 by six people, including a teenager, came to light in Delhi. The woman died a few days later in a hospital in Singapore.

One of the five adults accused, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail during the trial of the case.

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