Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December 10
Six days before the seventh anniversary of the December 16 Nirbhaya gang-rape case, one of the four convicts — Akshya Kumar Singh (23) — today filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking review of its 2017 verdict upholding the death penalty to all convicts.
The top court had dismissed the review petitions of other three convicts — Mukesh (30), Pawan Gupta (23) and Vinay Sharma (24) — in July, saying no grounds were made out by them for review of the 2017 verdict. All convicts are presently lodged in the capital’s high security Tihar Jail.
In his review petition filed through advocate AP Singh, Akshya said he should be spared the gallows. “The state must not simply execute people to prove that it is attacking terror or violence against women. It must persistently work towards systematic reforms to bring about change. Executions only kill the criminal, not the crime...,” his review petition read.
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