New Delhi (NVI): The Supreme Court today dismissed a curative petition filed by Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, a day before the scheduled hanging of all four convicts is to take place.
Pawan had filed the plea to commute his death sentence into life imprisonment claiming that he was a minor at the time of the incident in 2012.
The decision was taken by a six-member bench of the Supreme Court.
Earlier, three of four convicts in the case approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) seeking a stay on the execution of their death sentence.
All the four convicts are scheduled to be hanged on March 20 at 5.30 am after a trial court in Delhi issued fresh death warrants for the fourth time.
