New Delhi (NVI): Vinay Sharma, one of the four convict in Nirbhaya case has filed a fresh mercy petition before Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, seeking commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment.
This comes two day after the Supreme Court dismissed the plea of Mukesh Singh, another convict seeking urgent hearing on Monday.
On March 7, the court had said that it will hear Mukesh’s plea on March 16.
On March 5, a Delhi court issued fresh death warrants for Vinay Sharma and the other Nirbhaya convicts, and set the date of their hanging on March 20.
This is the fourth time that death warrants have been issued as the earlier three had to be deferred pending the exhaustion of legal remedies by the convicts.
They have been sentenced to death for brutally raping and killing a medical student in Delhi on December 16, 2012.
