Nirbhaya Case: Supreme Court To Hear Convict's Plea Today Who Says He Was Juvenile

Pawan has claimed that he was a juvenile at the time of crime, and the Delhi High Court had ignored this fact during the proceedings in the case.

The Supreme Court will today hear a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the death row convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will today hear a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the death row convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case. Pawan has claimed that he was a juvenile at the time of crime, and the Delhi High Court had ignored this fact during the proceedings in the case. The Delhi High Court had rejected the revision petition of Pawan and he had challenged this before the apex court on January 17, Friday. Pawan's lawyer, A P Singh claimed in the petition that Pawan's date of birth as per school record is October 8, 1996, but the Delhi High Court had ignored this. A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice R Banumathi and also comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna, will hear the SLP filed by one of the death row convicts, Pawan Gupta tomorrow. Watch | Supreme Court to hear today case of Nirbhaya convict who says he was juvenile A Delhi court issued a fresh death warrant against the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case, who will now be executed on February 1 at 6 am. Four convicts, Vinay, Akshay, Pawan, and Mukesh were convicted and sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in the national capital on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012. (With inputs from ANI)