The Supreme Court on Monday will hear a petition filed by the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape case to review its decision confirming their death sentence for a crime that shook the entire nation with its brutality and spurred the genesis of a stringent anti-rape law.
A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justices R. Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan will hear the review petition at 3.30 p.m.
On May 5, the same Bench had confirmed the death penalty of the four found guilty of the rape and murder of the 23-year-old paramedic student in Delhi. The decision came after marathon hearings held in the Supreme Court for about a year after the four convicts, Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Akshay Kumar Singh and Vinay Sharma, appealed against their death penalty.