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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the review petition filed by three of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case and upheld their death sentence, five-and-a-half years after a 23-year-old paramedic student was brutally gang-raped by six men in a moving bus on the roads of Delhi. Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justices R Banumathi, and Ashok Bhushan pronounced their judgement on the petitions filed by Pawan Gupta (22), Mukesh (29) and Vinay Sharma (23) at around 2:20 pm. Dismissing the plea, the bench said that the review petition had no grounds for a reconsideration.
Justice Bhushan said the convicts failed to show "error apparent on the face of the record" in the judgement. Akshay Thakur (31), the fourth death row convict, did not file a review plea. One of the accused, Ram Singh, had allegedly hanged himself in the Tihar jail. The sixth accused, who was a juvenile at that time, was found guilty by a juvenile justice board. He served a three-year term and subsequently released from a reformation home (and rehabilitated without disclosure of his identity -- as per the law of the land). The SC had on 05 May 2017, upheld the decision by the Delhi High Court and the trial court to award death penalty to all the four convicts in the brutal gang-rape and murder case that shook India.
Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder verdict: Highlights
3:50 pm: The Supreme Court's judgment has raised and restored people's faith in the judiciary, says BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi. She adds that it was imperative to send a very strong message to the culprits and accused in rape cases by the society.
3:40 pm: Amnesty India calls the Supreme Court's decision as an "unfortunate step towards the continued use of the death penalty in India". The group added that executions do not root out violence against women. "There is no evidence to show that the death penalty acts as a deterrent for sexual violence or any other crime." Amnesty further urges the government to "allocate resources for implementation of laws, improve conviction rates and ensure justice."