Mukesh Kumar Singh, one of the convicts in Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, on Friday approached the Supreme Court challenging the rejection of mercy petition by the President of India.
“Convict Mukesh Kumar Singh has moved the Supreme Court challenging the rejection of mercy petition by President of India,” advocate Vrinda Grover, lawyer of the Nirbhaya convict, told news agency ANI on Saturday.
On January 17, President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected the mercy petition of Mukesh Singh.
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After the mercy petition was rejected, a Delhi court issued a fresh death warrant against the four death-row convicts in the December 2012 gang-rape and murder case, for their execution at 6 am on February 1.