By UNI
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday will pronounce its verdict on the petitions filed by the three convicts in the brutal December 16, 2012, Delhi gangrape case, which shook the conscience of the society.
The Apex Court had on May 4, this year, reserved its order on the review petitions filed by the convicts - - Pawan Gupta (31), Vinay Sharma (25), and Mukesh (31) - - in the case also referred to as Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case.
A three-judge bench of the Apex Court, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra and also comprising Justice Ashok Bhushan and R Bhanumathi will pronounce the verdict.
The fourth convict, Akshay Thakur (33) has not filed the review petition yet.
The top court had in the last hearing, granted three weeks time to Akshay, to file his petition.
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According to the prosecution, the 23-year-old paramedical student was assaulted and raped by six people in a moving bus in south Delhi and thrown out of it with her male friend on the night of December 16, 2012.
She subsequently died during the treatment at a Singapore hospital on December 29, the same year.
Out of the six convicts, prime accused, Ram Singh, had allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar jail in 2013 during the trial of the case.
Another accused was found out by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) as a minor and sentenced to three years term at a probation home.
Saket's Fast track Court on September 13, 2013, had sentenced all four convicts to death.
The trial court referred the case to the Delhi High Court for confirmation of their death sentence.
The Delhi High Court had on January 2017, reserved its verdict.
It had, on March 13, 2014, upheld the death sentences awarded to the four.
The Apex Court had on May 5, last year, upheld the Delhi High court order of death penalty to them.
Following which, the three convicts appealed before the Supreme Court for reviewing it's order of death sentence.
