(Livemint)
The Supreme Court on Monday reaffirmed the death penalty granted to the convicts in the gang rape and murder of a paramedical student on 16 December 2012, in New Delhi. The judgement was pronounced on a review petition filed by three out of the four convicts against a May 2017 order of the apex court, which had upheld the death sentence of the convicts.
Explaining that review jurisdiction is exercised by the court in case of “glaring omission or injustice”, justice Ashok Bhushan decreed that the present case did not disclose any ground for interfere. A review petition cannot be used to re-argue the matter, justice Bhushan said. The May 2017 verdict by the Supreme Court was delivered in appeal against the death sentence awarded to them by the Delhi high court, which considered it to be a “rarest of rare” case.
