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December 16 gangrape case: SC likely to decide on review plea of three convicts today

Last year, the top court had upheld the death sentence awarded to the four accused by the Delhi High Court and the trial court in the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student on December 16, 2012 in the national capital.

Section 498A: The top court said it cannot fill in legislative gaps and left it to Parliament to make suitable rules to check abuse of the law. Last year, the top court had upheld the death sentence awarded to the four accused by the Delhi High Court and the trial court in the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student on December 16, 2012 in the national capital.
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The Supreme Court on Monday is likely to pronounce its judgment on the review petition of three out of the four convicts challenging the death sentence in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan is expected to deliver its verdict on the pleas filed by Mukesh (29), Pawan Gupta (22) and Vinay Sharma (23). The fourth convict, Akshay Kumar Singh (31), has not filed a review plea.

Advocate A P Singh, representing Akshay Kumar Singh, told PTI, “Akshay has not filed a review petition yet. We will be filing it.”

Last year, the top court had upheld the death sentence awarded to the four convicts by the Delhi High Court and the trial court in the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student on December 16, 2012 in the national capital. The victim was sexually assaulted inside a moving bus by six persons and thrown out on the road. She later succumbed to her injuries on December 29 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.

While one of the accused, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide in Tihar jail, another accused, a juvenile, was convicted by the juvenile justice board and was released after three years from a reformation home.

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