SC dismisses review petition in Nirbhaya case

New Delhi, Dec 18 (HS): Supreme Court today dismissed the last review petition in the gang rape, torture and killing of a young medical student in Delhi saying, “Review petition is not re-hearing of the appeal over and over again.”

The review petition was filed by Akshya Thakur Singh, one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya’s gang cum murder case that took place on December 16, 2012.

A three-judge bench said that he had an option of pleading for mercy before the President of India and had one week to do so.

The Court pointed out that similar arguments were considered for petitions of the three other convicts in same case requesting a review of their death sentence.

The Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had said, representing the Delhi government, “There are certain crimes where humanity cries and this case is one of them.”

He further said, “On that fateful day, God also must have held His head in shame for two reasons. First, for not being able to save the innocent girl, and second, for having created these five monsters.”

Akshay Singh, the convict, had questioned the dying declaration of Nirbhaya and had alleged that the pressure to implicate him had been overlooked and there had been inefficiency to catch the real perpetrators of the crime.