One of the death-row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case approached the Election Commission on Thursday to challenge the rejection of ...
One of the death-row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case approached the Election Commission on Thursday to challenge the rejection of his mercy plea, and contended that the Model Code of Conduct was in place in the national Capital at that time, reported IANS. This came hours after Vinay Sharma moved a court in Delhi seeking medical treatment for “grievous head injury, fracture in his right arm, mental illness, and schizophrenia”.
The four convicts in the case – the other three being Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh and Pawan Gupta – are scheduled to be executed at 6 am on March 3.
Sharma’s counsel told the electoral body that the Model Code of Conduct made Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia “ineligible” to reject his mercy plea. Campaigning for the Delhi elections, which were held on February 8, were ongoing when the plea was reportedly rejected by Sisodia, who contested the polls.
A mercy petition is forwarded by the Delhi government to the lieutenant governor and then to the president. On February 1, President Ram Nath Kovind rejected Sharma’s mercy plea two days after it was filed before him. On February 14, the Supreme Court dismissed Sharma’s petition challenging the rejection of his mercy plea by the president. The convict’s curative plea was dismissed in the...
