New Delhi, February 28: Death row convict Pawan Kumar Gupta has asked for his death penalty to be commuted to life sentence, his lawyer said on Friday.
He filed a curative petition in Supreme Court, his counsel AP Singh said.
All four death row convicts—Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar (31)—await their execution. President Ram Nath Kovind has already dismissed the mercy petitions of Mukesh, Vinay and Akshay.
The 23-year-old paramedic student was brutally gang-raped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, inside a running bus in south Delhi by six men and severely assaulted before being thrown out on the road. She died on December 29, 2012, at a hospital in Singapore. Agencies
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 in a correctional home. PTI
