{"id":58989,"date":"2020-03-03T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=58989"},"modified":"2020-03-03T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T07:51:12","slug":"sc-trashes-petition-seeking-organ-donation-by-death-row-convicts-in-nirbhaya-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-trashes-petition-seeking-organ-donation-by-death-row-convicts-in-nirbhaya-case","title":{"rendered":"SC trashes Petition seeking Organ Donation by Death row Convicts in Nirbhaya Case."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the Apex Court rejected a plea seeking donation of organs by 4 convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape &amp; murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi dubbed &#8220;Nirbhaya&#8221; by the media, urging the petitioner to &#8220;have human approach&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court said that &#8220;To execute a person is the saddest part for the family. You (petitioner) want their body to cut into pieces&#8230; have some human approach,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Organ donation has to be voluntary&#8221; SC added.<\/p>\n<p>In a plea filed by Ex-Judge MF Saldana, he had asked the Top Court to direct Tihar Jail authorities, where 4 convicts are lodged, to give an option to them to offer their bodies for medical research &amp; donate their organs. The petitioner had also urged the Court to consider the &#8220;desirability of making it as a condition precedent in the case of all executions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/review-of-death-penalty-in-Nirbhaya.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58242\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/one-of-4-convicts-moves-sc-seeking-review-of-death-penalty-in-nirbhaya-gang-rape-and-murder-case\/review-of-death-penalty-in-nirbhaya\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/review-of-death-penalty-in-Nirbhaya.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"review of death penalty in Nirbhaya\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/review-of-death-penalty-in-Nirbhaya.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58242\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/review-of-death-penalty-in-Nirbhaya.jpg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/review-of-death-penalty-in-Nirbhaya.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/review-of-death-penalty-in-Nirbhaya.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Earlier today, the Supreme Court rejected a curative plea by 1 of the 4 convicts, Pawan Gupta , a day before the 4 convicts are scheduled to be hanged. Pawan Gupta, 25, was the only convict in the case who had not exhausted his legal options of a curative petition.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court had earlier dismissed the petitions filed by Mukesh Kumar Singh &amp; Vinay Kumar Sharma that challenged the rejection of their mercy pleas. Akshay Kumar has not yet challenged the rejection of his mercy plea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the Apex Court rejected a plea seeking donation of organs by 4 convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape &amp; murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi dubbed &#8220;Nirbhaya&#8221; by the media, urging the petitioner to &#8220;have human approach&#8221;. 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