New Delhi (NVI): The Supreme Court today dismissed the curative petitions filed by two of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case.
The pleas were filed by Mukesh and Vinay Sharma on January 9. All the four convicts, including two others- Akshay Kumar and Pawan Gupta- are scheduled to be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar Jail.
A five-judge bench comprising of Justices NV Ramana, Arun Mishra, Rohinton Nariman, R Banumathi, and Ashok Bhushan pronounced the verdict today after they took up the matter at around 1.45 pm this afternoon.
After the rejection, now the accused only have the option to file mercy pleas before President Ram Nath Kovind.Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old girl, was brutally raped and murdered on the night of December 16, 2012, in a south Delhi area.
