SC sends Nirbhaya killers to the gallows, rejects the examination of the death penalty | News from India

NEW DELHI: The convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape-murder case face the gallows in the Supreme Court, declaring Monday that she found no new reason to rethink her decision from May 2017 to grant death to the four for the barbaric aggression on a paramedic of 23 years that sparked a wave of outrage at the national level.

One of the defendants, Ram Singh, committed suicide during the trial. A minor in conflict with the law has been tried by a special court and has already served three years in a reform house. A Delhi court of first instance had granted the death sentence to Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay and Akshay. This was confirmed by the Delhi High Court and later by the SC. Last December, the SC reserved its verdict on the petitions of Mukesh, Vinay and Pawan requesting a review of the decision of the SC.

Convicted persons have the option of requesting the presidential commutation of their death sentence, which seems unlikely given the seriousness of the crime and the views of the court of first instance, HC and the SC.

On Monday, a bench of Chief Judge Dipak Misra and Judges R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan stated that the SC had heard the defendants' appeals against the Delhi HC verdict for 38 days, giving them ample leeway. opportunity to raise all possible motives. defense, which were thoroughly reviewed by the trial court before rendering its verdict on May 5 last.

"In these Review Petitions, there are no grounds for providing a reason for reviewing the Judgment, so we find no basis in these Requests for Review and therefore the Requests for Review are dismissed. ", said Judge Bhushan. who wrote the judgment on behalf of the bench.
Referring to the findings of the interrogations of the convicts of the scientific investigation by the Delhi police, Judge Bhushan said: "The alignment of the DNA profile developed from the items seized in the bus as" hair " and the stained blanket of blood from the bus and the pile of hair recovered from the bus floor with the DNA profile of the victim was considered irrefutable evidence establishing the involvement of the bus in the committing the offense.

"The oral and scientific evidence has been thoroughly examined by this court to confirm the findings of the high court regarding the involvement of the bus.The petitioner / accused can not reactivate the same point. "He quotes the statement of the victim that describes the incident and clarifies the role of each accused, the rape committed by a number of people and the insertion of an iron bar in his rooms. .

On May 5, the same bench of judges Misra, Banumathi and Bhushan had confirmed the decision of the Delhi HC to grant the death sentence to the four convicts. Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old paramedic, was brutally assaulted and raped on a moving bus in South Delhi and thrown out of the car with her friend on her way home after watching a movie on the night of December 16, 2012.

Although her executioners gave her for dead, she survived for nearly a fortnight, her brave fight drawing the attention of the entire nation. She died on December 29 at a Singapore hospital where she was transported by the government.