SC to hear review petition of Nirbhaya gangrape convicts

ANI  |  New Delhi[India] 

The will on Monday hear the filed by the Nirbhaya gangrape convicts.

The apex court, in May, upheld the order of High Court, which had sentenced the four convicts - Akshay, Pawan, and Mukesh to death.

On December 16, 2012, six people gang-raped a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern in a moving bus in

The woman succumbed to her injuries in a on December 29, 2012.

One of the accused, Ram Singh, had hanged himself in the prison, while another person, who was a juvenile at the time of the crime, was convicted in August last year and is serving the maximum sentence of three years in a reform home.

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First Published: Mon, January 22 2018. 02:30 IST