New Delhi (NVI): A Delhi court today dismissed the Nirbhaya rape and murder convict Vinay Sharma’s plea for medical treatment, observing that the convict’s claim of mental illness is a “bundle of distorted facts”.
Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana rejected the plea by Vinay Kumar Sharma.
Convict Vinay Sharma, in his plea, had claimed that he had sustained a grievous head injury and fracture in his right arm, and was suffering from “insanity”, “mental illness” and “schizophrenia”.
The Delhi court also asked the Tihar authorities to ensure adequate medical care to all the convicts.
The psychologist, who appeared on behalf of the jail, said medical checkups of all four convicts were done on a daily basis and they are all fine.
Reacting to Sharma’s plea, victim’s mother Asha Devi said, “It was a tactic to delay the execution. The convicts are misleading courts.
The court had on February 17 issued fresh death warrants for the execution of the four convicts that they will be hanged on March 3.
A 23-year-old woman, on December 16, 2012, was gang-raped and assaulted inside a moving bus in South Delhi by six persons. She later died on December 29, 2012, at a hospital in Singapore.
