Mumbai: Akshay Thakur, who was awarded death sentence in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, filed a mercy petition before the President of India on Saturday. Thakur has become the third convict in the mercy petition filed before the President.
So far, President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy petitions of Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh, convicted in the case. Meanwhile, a Delhi court on Friday stayed the execution of the four convicts in the case, which was earlier scheduled to be held on February 1.
A Delhi court had earlier issued a death warrant for convicts — Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, and Vinay Sharma — for their execution on February 1.
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The case related to the 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 in Delhi. The woman died a few days later in a hospital in Singapore.
Ram Singh, one of the five adults accused, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail during the hearing
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