Dec 16 gangrape case: Convict Akshay Singh moves court seeking stay on execution order

His fresh plea comes a day after Pawan Kumar Gupta moved a curative plea in the Supreme Court Friday and sought commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. He was the lone convict who had not yet exhausted his legal remedies of filing a curative petition— the last legal remedy available to a person.

Meanwhile, the court has sought the response of Tihar jail authorities by Monday, a day before their execution.

A trial court has set the execution of the four convicts in the case at 6 am on March 3.

On December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, was gang-raped and savagely assaulted in a moving bus in South Delhi. She died after a fortnight. Six people, including the four convicts and a juvenile, were named as accused.

Ram Singh, the sixth accused, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar jail days after the trial began in the case. The juvenile was released in 2015 after spending three years at a correctional home.

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