{"id":33572,"date":"2014-06-03T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33572"},"modified":"2014-06-03T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:50:12","slug":"two-death-row-convicts-december-16-gangrape-murder-case-move-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/two-death-row-convicts-december-16-gangrape-murder-case-move-sc","title":{"rendered":"Two death row convicts in December 16 gangrape, murder case move SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/delhi-gang-rape-sc-extends-stay-death-sentence-two-convicts\/16-dec-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32793\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32793\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/delhi-gang-rape-sc-extends-stay-death-sentence-two-convicts\/16-dec-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/16-dec.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"16 dec\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/16-dec.jpg?fit=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/16-dec.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-32793 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/16-dec.jpg?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"16 dec\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/16-dec.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/04\/16-dec.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>Two out of the four death row convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on their execution and reversal of the Delhi High Court verdict upholding their conviction and the punishment.<\/p>\n<p>An appeal on behalf of the condemned convicts, Vinay Sharma (21) and Akshay Kumar Singh (29) was filed while two others, Mukesh (27) and Pawan (20), had approached the apex court earlier and their execution has already been stayed.<\/p>\n<p>The Delhi High Court had on March 13 this year upheld their conviction and award of the death penalty by terming the offence as \u201cextremely fiendish\u201d and \u201cunparalleled in the history of criminal jurisprudence\u201d and said the \u201cexemplary punishment\u201d was the need of the hour.<\/p>\n<p>It had also said if this case was not \u201cthe rarest of rare cases\u201d then \u201cthere is likely to be none\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Besides seeking setting aside of the High Court verdict, Vinay and Akshay, in their appeal filed through lawyer A P Singh, have sought a stay on their execution as an interim relief.<\/p>\n<p>The petition said the judgement be set aside as there was no \u201csubstance or material piece of evidence\u201d and there were contradictions in the depositions of the victim and her friend, who had accompanied her in the bus, about the offence and the offenders.<\/p>\n<p>It said the testimony of the SDM cannot be relied on as she had deposed that the victim was \u201ccomfortable, happy and willing to record her statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether a patient who is on ventillator\u2026can be happy and comfortable?,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Disputing the veracity of the dying declaration of the victim, it said she was not fit enough to record her statement and hence, the statement made through gestures cannot be relied upon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe High Court failed to appreciate before awarding death sentence to appellant Vinay Sharma that he was juvenile at the time of the incident\u2026,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old paramedic, on the night of December 16, 2012, was brutally assaulted and gangraped by six persons in a moving bus in South Delhi and thrown out of the vehicle with her male friend. She later died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.<\/p>\n<p>Prime accused in the case Ram Singh was found dead in Tihar Jail in March last year and the trial against him was abated.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth accused, the juvenile, was on August 31, 2013 convicted and sentenced to a maximum of three years in a reformation home by the Juvenile Justice Board.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two out of the four death row convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on their execution and reversal of the Delhi High Court verdict upholding their conviction and the punishment. 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