Nirbhaya Case: SC Dismisses Curative Petition of Fourth Convict Day before Scheduled Hanging

New Delhi: In a significant development today, the apex court today dismissed the curative plea of one of the four death row convicts, Pawan Kumar Gupta, in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, a day before their scheduled hanging.

The curative petition was considered by a bench of justices NV Ramana, Arun Mishra, RF Nariman, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan in the chamber of Justice Ramana.

Pawan, 25, against whom the death warrant has been issued for execution on March 3 along with the three other condemned prisoners, had claimed juvenility to seek commutation of sentence to life imprisonment.

He filed the curative plea through lawyer A P Singh seeking setting aside of the apex court’s earlier verdicts on appeals and review petitions in the case.

Pawan was the last death row convict in the case to move the top court with his curative plea, the final legal remedy available to a person.