Nirbhaya convict files curative plea in SC

    at 4:58 pm

    New Delhi (NVI): Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape case today approached Supreme Court and sought that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment.

    Pawan Kumar Gupta and the three other convicts including Vinay Sharma, Akshay Kumar and Mukesh Singh are scheduled to be hanged on March 3 at 6 am in Tihar Jail.

    Earlier this month, the Patiala House court in Delhi signed fresh death warrants for the four men convicted in the case.

    Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old girl, was brutally raped and murdered on the night of December 16, 2012, in a south Delhi area.