'Died several times in prison': Nirbhaya ganrape case convict files mercy plea

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'Died several times in prison': Nirbhaya ganrape case convict files mercy plea
'Died several times in prison': Nirbhaya ganrape case convict files mercy plea

New Delhi : Days before Supreme Court is due to hear the curative petition filed by one of the convicts in Nirbhaya Gangrape case, another convict has filed a mercy plea before the President Ram Nath Kovind.

Convict Vinay Sharma's lawyer, AP Singh, confirmed filing of mercy plea and claimed that his client has 'died several times inside the prison' during the proceedings.

"I am submitting this mercy petition with the hope that your good self will listen to my story when nobody did. This is the last chance I have to tell how the terrible circumstances of that fateful day in December 2012 changed my life forever... I want to tell you all this, so that you can decide whether death is the only punishment I deserve," news agency PTI quoted Vinay Sharma as stating in the petition.

The 26-year-old convict is to be executed with three other convicts in the brutal gangrape and murder case on February 1. However, with Akshay Singh has challenged the decision in the Supreme Court, the date is now expected to be further delayed.

According to a news report, the petition will be heard by Supreme Court in the closed chambers and not in an open court. After the curative petition is rejected, Akshay Singh will have the option to send a mercy plea to President Ram Nath Kovind.

The four were originally scheduled to be hanged on January 22, but appeals from the convicts ended up delaying the exercise.

"These petitions before the court and the President are just tactics to delay the execution. They are doing it just to waste time. All the convicts must be executed on February 1," Asha Devi, the mother of the victim, said when another convict approached the top court a few days ago.